Triage

A masterwork, faultless and taut, that stitches together a fractured, aching world with precise and subtle language that refuses to ever falter under the weight of the profundity of Claudia Rankine’s conclusions. Her genius takes on the deepest questions of our spirits -- Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Pulitzer-Prize winner for Feature Writing 2018
Stunning... an extended meditation on the collective devastation of the present. The beauty of Rankine’s dense, elliptical sentences guides us through -- Saidiya Hartman
‘Pioneering, prescient, fiercely intelligent reflections on race, identity and power . . . A devastating meditation on the politics of now." -- Kenya Hunt * Elle *
A sharp, forensic inquiry into camaraderie and the way it frays under the pressures of contemporary life -- Roger Robinson, author of A Portable Paradise
Claudia Rankine’s remarkable, outstanding odyssey—an account of our present, which is also our past, which is always our future—is beautifully rendered in a kaleidoscope of images and sensations. Triage is exquisite -- Jamaica Kincaid
In Claudia Rankine’s writing, we feel traditional genres buckle under the catastrophes of the present—and then she shows us how new possibilities of form and feeling might emerge -- Ben Lerner
Startling, clear-eyed, undeniably cool . . . even with the heaviest subjects, she writes with beguiling ease -- Colin Grant * Observer *
Claudia Rankine’s lines profoundly question the validity and viability of ‘these truths,’ whether spoken in faith or twisted out of shape. Rankine’s body poetic refuses the compromises and consolations of the body politic. Triage is her elegiac anti-memoir of ‘these times’ -- Homi K. Bhabha
It is exhilarating to surrender to the ingenuity and rhythm of Rankine’s writing...It doesn’t offer easy answers but poses important questions beautifully, mercilessly and with an urgency that will outlast our present predicament -- Max Liu * Financial Times *
A fantastical hybrid . . . both mirrors and engages with our present moment’s contradictions -- Sarah Crown * Guardian *
Bold,necessary, profound...full of novelistic richness -- Lara Feigel * The New Statesman *