Frantz Fanon died in 1961, struck down by leukemia. He was 36, young enough for the fierce adulation that’s accorded to those to whom fame and death come too soon. A rebellious black man born in the ...

Frantz Fanon, the intellectual patron saint of violent national resistance movements, is among the authors most likely to be quoted on a sign held up at the protests that have recently taken up so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2021, when Grove Press reissued “The Wretched of the Earth,” Frantz Fanon’s classic manifesto of anti-colonial rebellion, the ...

'The Rebel's Clinic' by Adam Shatz. Source: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024 “In front of the sick, we are filled with humility.” With these quiet, reflective words, murmured to trainees during ...

A biography of the psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon is, inevitably, a biography of the world he fought to change. Fanon would no doubt have approved: As a pioneer of “social ...

With his new biography, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, Adam Shatz seeks to feed Fanon’s moment and ground it in that missing context—Fanon the person, and not just his ...

THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH by Frantz Fanon. 255 pages. Grove. $5. This is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the windows of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto or the Mein Kampf of the ...

Freud and Nietzsche may not be what you have in mind when thinking of pool-side reads, but they are among the books flipped through in “The White Lotus” — the tense, new TV drama about the lives of ...

W hen Frantz Fanon was dying of leukemia, he was visited by his old friends Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. The three philosophers conversed long into the night. Eventually, though, Sartre ...

Although Frantz Fanon died of leukaemia in 1961 at the age of 36, his passionate commitment against systems of oppression and injustice continues to inspire. From anti-colonial fighters on the African ...

In 2021, when Grove Press reissued “The Wretched of the Earth,” Frantz Fanon’s classic manifesto of anti-colonial rebellion, the timing — 60 years after its release and its author’s death — couldn’t ...