They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

A beautiful and sad collection of essays. I love the way Hanif engages with music. He made me think about things in ways I had never before, and reconsider previous assumptions I had made without thinking. He writes a lot about death, ultimately arguing that hope and joy are involved in processing fear and loss. This book is a raw portrait of the current American political landscape. It can get dense and certainly heavy, so if you read multiple books at once I would try to find something lighter to pair with this.