On my radar: Claudia Rankine’s cultural highlights

The poet and playwright on her love of The White Lotus, the example of Naomi Osaka, and what stayed with her from the George Floyd murder trial

Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist, playwright and a professor of poetry at Yale. Born in Jamaica in 1963, she moved to America as a child and later received an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of six books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), which won numerous prizes including a National Book Critics Circle award. Rankine lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband, the film-maker John Lucas, and their daughter. Her latest book, Just Us: An American Conversation, which interrogates race in the US through a series of conversations, is out in paperback on 2 September.