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Columbus native Hanif Abdurraqib, winner of a ‘genius grant’ from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation plans to use some of the $625,000 award to give back to the community.

Columbus poet, essayist and cultural critic, Hanif Abdurraqib has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant.'

The official start of summer is just around the corner and few destinations rival getting lost in a great book.

Major exhibition dedicated to Senga Nengudi opens in Philadelphia Installation view of the exhibition, “Senga Nengudi: Topologies.” Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photo by Timothy Tiebout, 2021. PHILADELPHIA, PA .-The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the only East Coast venue for a major traveling exhibition devoted to Senga Nengudi, a leading figure of the 1970s Black American avant-garde and a pioneering artist of our time. Marked by her innovative use of everyday materials ...

Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib’s new book undertakes an ambitious task: contextualizing the scope and scale of a people’s cultural expression.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Nancy Colier, author of the new book "Cant Stop Thinking," shares how people can liberate themselves from obsessive rumination.

Andy Weir returns with new sci-fi thriller "Project Hail Mary," and Julianna Margulies opens up in new memoir "Sunshine Girl."

CHICAGO — Hanif Abdurraqib doesn’t exactly write about music. I mean, yes, he writes about music, he’s written three acclaimed books (and many poems) about music; he has two podcasts about music; the Brooklyn Academy of Music recently named him guest curator-at-large. One of my favorite pandemic activities has been settling into his website Sixtyeight2ohfive, a kind of musical family tree/personal excavation project culled from Spotify playlists, and though I don’t know if m...

CHICAGO — Hanif Abdurraqib doesn’t exactly write about music. I mean, yes, he writes about music, he’s written three acclaimed books (and many poems) about music; he has two podcasts about music; the Brooklyn Academy of Music recently named him guest curator-at-large. One of my favorite pandemic activities has been settling into his website Sixtyeight2ohfive, a kind of musical family tree/personal excavation project culled from Spotify playlists, and though I don’t know if m...