Fanon, who died in 1961, wrote about the politics and psychology of colonialism. In The Rebel's Clinic, Adam Shatz captures the thorny brilliance of a man whose radicalism is still shaping our world.

Fanon’s conception of violence does not work in Palestine. Israel’s settler colonialism is much more than ‘violence in its natural state’ and thus will require far more than ‘greater ...

To return to the revolutionary thought of Fanon, Alice Cherki (in Living Fanon: Global Perspectives, ed. Nigel C. Gibson, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011) talks about “Fanon, Fifty Years Later: Resisting the ...

Mr. Shatz is the U.S. editor of The London Review of Books and the author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.” The shock of the new, in political life, often ...

Franz Fanon, the Martiniquan born psychiatrist, committed Algerian revolutionary and Pan-African thinker, died 60 years ago on December 6, 1961 just after the publication of his last book, The ...