Triage

The New York Times · 4 August 2026

‘Triage,’ by Claudia Rankine

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Chicago Review of Books · 4 August 2026

It’s Not Going to Stop: Claudia Rankine’s “Triage”

Early in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, the narrator recalls a conversation with a friend who was dying of cancer. They discussed the films Boogie Nights and Magnolia at great length, she recalls, and agreed that both films depict feelings of bitter disappointment…

By Dan Kubis

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