Triage

Stunning... an extended meditation on the collective devastation of the present. The beauty of Rankine’s dense, elliptical sentences guides us through -- Saidiya Hartman
At the center of Triage is a ritual of collapse and tentative recovery, of giving way and getting back up. 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
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
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
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
Rankine is a literary icon, so it’s no surprise that she’s found ways to blend genres and formats into her next book. . . . Rankine explores the backdrop of violence that has only intensified in recent years, as well as the love that keeps us together in emotionally numbing times * Harper’s Bazaar 25 Most Highly Anticipated Books of 2026 *