Nimble and engrossing.

Absorbing.

Sober and thorough.

A sensitive and affectionate biography..

Insightful.

Excellent and thought-provoking..

Captures the restless energy that makes Frantz Fanon such a compelling figure.

Shatz brings existing accounts of Fanon’s life together with published memoirs of people who knew him, new interviews and interpretations of his writing.

A strength of The Rebel’s Clinic is the meticulous charting of the schools and figures that influenced Fanon’s thought.

An impressive accomplishment.

Treating its subject with a healthy dose of veneration and criticism, Shatz’s book is also a remarkable work of intellectual synthesis.

Thoroughly researched.

Perceptive.

Closely argued.