February 29
5:00PM-6:30PM
Rifkind Room, NAC 6/316
Adam Shatz will discuss his latest book, The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, with Youssef Ben Ismail.
Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a visiting professor at Bard College. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso, 2023) and The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (FSG, 2024). Educated at Columbia University, he has written about politics and culture for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications. In 2021 he was awarded a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et de lettres by the French government in recognition of his writings on French culture.
Youssef Ben Ismail is a lecturer of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and a Fellow at the Society of Fellows, SOF/Heyman at Columbia University.