“... Author​ of the anti-racist jeremiad Black Skin, White Masks; spokesman for the Algerian Revolution and author of The Wretched of the Earth, the ‘bible’ of decolonisation; inspiration to Third World revolutionaries from the refugee camps of Palestine to the back streets of Tehran and Beirut, Harlem and Oakland; founder, avant la lettre, of post-colonialism; hero to the alienated banlieusards of France, who feel as if the Battle of Algiers never ended, but simply moved to the cités: Frantz Fanon has been remembered in a lot of ways, but almost all of them have foregrounded his advocacy of resistance, especially violent resistance ...”

“... Slavoj Žižek: In the Grey Zone Tariq Ali: The Muslim Response Jeremy Harding in Paris Adam Shatz: Moral Clarity Tariq Ali: Short Cuts Uri Avnery: Netanyahu at the March Glen Newey: The Right to Joke ...”

“... the epithet ‘magisterial’. Macey’s account is now joined by The Rebel’s Clinic by Adam Shatz: necessarily a more troubled, undecided and dialogical book, aware on every page of the press of claimants on Fanon’s legacy as the years go by – absorbing and resisting the various readers, trying to reconcile them, admitting the strangeness ...”

“... values by choosing our forebears according to our present needs.Listen to Paul Gilroy talk to Adam Shatz on the LRB ...”

“... while his references to Césaire were overwhelmingly favourable. In his recent biography of Fanon, Adam Shatz points out that ‘even in the wake of his critical gaze’ on négritude, Fanon ‘would continue to pay homage to Césaire’s influence’. Césaire, for his part, said that he ‘always considered Fanon my companion in thought’. There ...”

“... treating the French servicemen who were involved in torturing them. For Fanon, as his biographer Adam Shatz writes, the French torturers too ‘were victims of a colonial system whose dirty work they were required to perform’. But this did not stop Fanon from arguing, in The Wretched of the Earth (1961), that ‘for the colonised, life can only ...”