Join Haymarket Books for a launch event for The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon with Adam Shatz and E. Tammy Kim.

Named a most anticipated book of 2024 by Foreign Policy | Lit Hub | The Millions

"Nimble and engrossing. . . [An] exemplary work of public intellectualism." —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post

A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for social and racial justice

In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this launch event, Adam Shatz and E. Tammy Kim will discuss the story of Fanon’s life and work.

Fanon left his modest home in Martinique to fight in the French Army during World War II; when the war was over, he fell under the influence of Existentialism while studying medicine in Lyon and trying to make sense of his experiences as a Black man in a white city. Fanon went on to practice a novel psychiatry of “dis-alienation” in rural France and Algeria, and then join the Algerian independence struggle, where he became a spokesman, diplomat, and clandestine strategist. He died in 1961, while under the care of the CIA in a Maryland hospital.

Today, Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth have become canonical texts of the Black and global radical imagination, comparable to James Baldwin’s essays in their influence. And yet they are little understood. In The Rebel’s Clinic, Shatz offers a dramatic reconstruction of Fanon’s extraordinary life—and a guide to the books that underlie today’s most vital efforts to challenge white supremacy and racial capitalism.

Order a copy of The Rebel's Clinic: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9780374176426

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Speakers:
 

Adam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and the host of the podcast “Myself with Others.” In 2021 he was awarded a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres in recognition of his writings about French literature and culture. He has reported from Algeria, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt.

E. Tammy Kim is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.

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