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Adam Shatz

@adamshatz.bsky.social
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US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).

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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
George Grella asked me to be in conversation with him about his terrific new book on minimalist music, in an event sponsored by the Brooklyn Rail. We had a great exchange and now it’s on YouTube. @gtra1n.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=d7TE...
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NSE #1362 | George Grella and Adam Shatz
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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Podcast: Adam Shatz, Muhammad Shehada and Jehad Abusalim · Gaza after the Ceasefire
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Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Adam Shatz intellectual profile goes really well with Nathaniel George's paper on Charles Malek. These are different figures, but there is a clear genealogy between the two and how they fit in two different eras of American politics. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
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“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution
Abstract. While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the co
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20/08/2026
‘As the Swedish diplomatic historian Anders Stephanson writes, “the alarming fact” is that “everyone on this earth has an enormous stake in how the United States chooses to be and act in this world.” Not just enormous: existential.’ Adam Shatz on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Adam Shatz: Visions of America
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 19 August · 56min
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/08/2026
‘Beauvoir described America as a coercively cheerful country that refused to confront the reality of death, that expressed its horror of the body in advertisements for deodorant and laxatives.’ @adamshatz.bsky.social’s lecture ‘Another Country’, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Adam Shatz: Visions of America
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 19 August · 56min
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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I was happy to stumble upon this year old video from an Einstein Forum event: "Adam Shatz, Zadie Smith---100 Years of Frantz Fanon Rethinking the Canon" HT @adamshatz.bsky.social for referring to Fanon as the "Coltrane of anti colonialism" - "constantly reinvesting himself" youtu.be/PBsVzyVgS-I?...
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Adam Shatz, Zadie Smith: 100 Years of Frantz Fanon. Rethinking the Canon
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
In "Our Palestine Question", Geoffrey Levin shows how American Jewish critics of Israel were dislodged from Jewish institutions in the decades following the state’s formation. #rightToExist #nationalism #nyc #Zionism #coloniality #LRB #colonialism #StandWithIsrael #israelism #diaspora
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Adam Shatz · Israel’s Descent
Eight months after 7 October, Palestine remains in the grip, and at the mercy, of a furious, vengeful Jewish state, ever...
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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“To look at her photographs of Garner, Horace Silver or Bud Powell at the piano is to be struck by her emphasis on musical performance as a form of work – or, as Thelonious Monk put it more emphatically in an album title, ‘Work!’” @adamshatz.bsky.social on Lisette Model:
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/09/2026
‘“I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,” Lisette Model wrote. “And that was something I really wanted to photograph.”’ @adamshatz.bsky.social on Model’s jazz photographs. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 29/09/2026
Lisette Model was targeted for Communist/leftist affiliations in the '50s and her postwar jazz photography project lost its funding (an alleged letter condemning Model's politics from her editor at Harper's Bazaar didn't help). The images have finally been published www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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Remarque Institute @remarquenyu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Watch Susan Neiman speak on her book, Call it Evil: Understanding the Trump Era, in conversation with Adam Shatz and Suzanne Schneider. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5erB...
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Susan Neiman, Call it Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/09/2026
‘To look at her photographs of Horace Silver or Bud Powell at the piano is to be struck by her emphasis on musical performance as a form of work – or, as Thelonious Monk put it more emphatically in an album title, “Work!”’ @adamshatz.bsky.social on Lisette Model. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
​If you are in NYC on 10/29, please join us at the New School at 7 pm for "Beyond the Israel Lobby," a conversation (I will be moderating) featuring Robert Malley, Nadia Abu El-Haj, and Ian Lustick. Space is limited so reserve your seat as soon as possible. www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
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Book tickets – The LRB Podcast, live: Beyond the Israel Lobby – The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall at the New School, 63 5th Ave
The LRB Podcast, live: Beyond the Israel Lobby – The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall at the New School, 63 5th Ave, Thu 29 Oct 2026 - Twenty years ago, the London Review of Books published a contro...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Richard Lloyd Parry, writing brilliantly in the @lrb.co.uk on the “Kimmification“ of American politics. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Lloyd Parry · Keeping up with the Kims
For the Kims, nuclear weapons have never been an end in themselves; they are an insurance policy against attack by their...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A moving obituary of Stanislas Hutin, who broke the silence around France’s torture of Algerians, by Adam Nossiter. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/w...
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Stanislas Hutin, Who Denounced Torture in France’s Algerian War, Dies at 95
He was among the first to chronicle the French force’s systematic abuse of Algerians, brutal encounters that he documented in his journal and with his photography.
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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In Search of a Sound: Dreams of a New Black Music • Adam Shatz 📕 “An engrossing history of the experimental artists who escaped the "Tin Pan Alley penitentiary" of conventional pop & jazz, & created America’s most successful avant-garde” June 8, 2027 • FSG us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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In Search of a Sound
An engrossing history of the experimental artists who escaped the "Tin Pan Alley penitentiary" of conventional pop and jazz, and created America’s most suc...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The publication of my book “In Search of a Sound: Dreams of a New Black Music (@fsgbooks), a chronicle in portraits of the African American music avant-garde from Coltrane (whose centenary is today!) to the present, has just been announced. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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In Search of a Sound
An engrossing history of the experimental artists who escaped the "Tin Pan Alley penitentiary" of conventional pop and jazz, and created America’s most suc...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A wonderful obituary of Elaine Klein Mokhtefi, friend of Fanon, liaison bt the Black Panthers and the Algerian gvt, activist, writer, painter— and author of a classic memoir of Third Wod revolution. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/w...
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Elaine Mokhtefi, American Witness to Algeria’s Revolution, Dies at 97
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/09/2026
‘“I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,” Lisette Model wrote. “And that was something I really wanted to photograph.”’ @adamshatz.bsky.social on Model’s jazz photographs: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/09/2026
‘Lisette Model’s portraits of the leisure class on holiday weren’t indictments of affluence and privilege so much as creepy, outsized depictions of her subjects’ loneliness, despair and physical deformities.’ @adamshatz.bsky.social on the photographer: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The musician to whom Lisette Model felt most attached was Billie Holiday; she considered her ‘one of the greatest American artists, and when I say “American” I mean black.’
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/09/2026
‘Lisette Model is best known as a street photographer. She counted Diane Arbus, Peter Hujar and Larry Fink among her followers. But the publication of 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘢𝘻𝘻 𝘗𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴is likely to prompt a reappraisal of Model’s legacy.’ @adamshatz.bsky.social : www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/09/2026
‘To look at her photographs of Horace Silver or Bud Powell at the piano is to be struck by her emphasis on musical performance as a form of work – or, as Thelonious Monk put it more emphatically in an album title, “Work!”’ @adamshatz.bsky.social on Lisette Model: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the @lrb.co.uk I write about the photographer Lisette Model, a refugee from fascism who planned to do a book about jazz with Langston Hughes - only to fall victim to McCarthyism. Her jazz photos - now compiled in Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures - are a revelation. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sophy Ridge: "You talked about Jewish settler terrorists who are guilty of ethnic cleansing. Do you stand by that?" Ed Miliband: "Yes I do"
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Who Killed Alex Odeh?": www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHt5...
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Who Killed Alex Odeh? | OFFICIAL TRAILER
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The NYT, doing to El-Sayed what it did to Mamdani. In fact there are plenty of Jewish Democrats who agree with El-Sayed and don’t think he should make a craven apology for comments that hurt the ‘sensitivities’ of those who aren’t bothered by a war of annihilation. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/u...
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El-Sayed Wants to Mend Ties With Jewish Democrats, but Some Are Still Not Impressed
Lingering concerns about the Senate nominee in Michigan could make it harder for him to assemble a winning coalition.
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Time to revisit Michael Moore’s “Canadian Bacon,” a 1995 satirical film about a US president who, desperate for enemies in a post-Cold War environment, declares war on Canada. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUt...
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CANADIAN BACON Official Trailer (1995, John Candy, Alan Alda, Michael Moore)
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/08/2026
On the podcast: Donald Trump’s vision of Fortress America is a violent attempt to resolve what Baldwin called the ‘rich confusion’ of American identity. But there are other possible Americas. @adamshatz.bsky.social explores what they can offer the present moment. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Adam Shatz: Visions of America
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 19 August · 56min
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Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This intellectual profile of Fouad Ajami by Adam Shatz captures well the intellectual shallowness and mercenary attitude of the people in the pro-war think tank scene. People who took their ethno-sectarian-localist grievances with them to the US to justify war and Imperialism against their countries
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
On the new @lrb.co.uk podcast, I speak with Randall Kennedy and @maragay.bsky.social about the long history of Black voter suppression in the US and its potential implications for the midterms. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Podcast: Mara Gay, Randall Kennedy and Adam Shatz · The long history of Black voter suppression in the US
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/07/2026
On the podcast: 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 staff writer @maragay.bsky.social and Harvard professor Randall Kennedy join @adamshatz.bsky.social to explore what the decision in Louisiana v. Callais means for future US elections and the long erosion of voting rights protections. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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The long history of Black voter suppression in the US
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 31 July · 1hr 2min
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
On the new @lrb.co.uk podcast, I speak with Randall Kennedy and @maragay.bsky.social about the long history of Black voter suppression in the US and its potential implications for the midterms. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Podcast: Mara Gay, Randall Kennedy and Adam Shatz · The long history of Black voter suppression in the US
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Peter Beinart has written many powerful pieces, but this essay on the complete moral collapse of the American Jewish establishment, and its collaboration with the forces of American and Israeli fascism, is in a class of its own. jewishcurrents.org/the-shame-of...
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The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment
In its quest to defend Israel, establishment Jewry has abandoned liberal democracy in the US.
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
As the Trump regime denounces the Smithsonian for failing to present a whitewashed version of US history, we’ve lost one of our greatest radical historians, Mike Wallace, author of the masterly history of NYC, Gotham. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...
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Mike Wallace, Who Wrote an Acclaimed History of New York, Dies at 83
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Omair Ahmad @omairahmad.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Non-violence was pursued as a strategy for decades, most prominently during the Great March of Return in 2018-19... Over eighteen months of demonstrations, Israel killed more than two hundred protesters, as well as paramedics, journalists and children, and injured at least 34,000 people."
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/07/2026
‘As a swaggering and unspeakably tacky casino has taken the place of a smug city on a hill, the American empire has undergone a great, even an overdue, humbling.’ @adamshatz.bsky.social on ideas of America, from February: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Essential piece from @muhammadshehada.bsky.social Muhammad Shehada: Marwan Barghouti and Palestine’s future app.lrb.co.uk/2026/06/26/m...
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Muhammad Shehada: Marwan Barghouti and Palestine’s future
‘I would never release him’Muhammad Shehada on Marwan Barghouti and Palestine’s future‘You made a serious mistake by leaving Gaza,’ my friend Ibra…
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you want to understand Israel's war on Lebanon from the perspective of its victims, this is the place to start: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Zain Samir · War on the Shia: In Lebanon
In the 1960s, Lebanese society was divided between those who saw armed resistance against Israel as a national duty and...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Perhaps Hobsbawm’s canonization—his “myth,” to borrow Chabal’s term—was a Western tribute to a great historian who had erected a monument to Europe at the time of its decline." Enzo Traverso on Emile Chabal's intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm: www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ce...
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The Century of Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm’s enduring power lay in his ability to synthesize vast historical processes into compelling narratives that made the modern world legible. Yet, argues Traverso, the celebrated Marxist hi...
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
21 years ago today, Samir Kassir — a Lebanese-Palestinian journalist and leftist intellectual — was assassinated in Beirut, by the Assad regime. Samir’s writing inspired a generation.
Photograph of Samir Kassir, the Lebanese-Palestinian journalist and intellectual. He is sitting in a chair at his home editing a manuscript. 

He is holding a pen in one hand, and a cigarette in the other.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“Children are experiencing repeated displacement, disruption to education, psychological distress, and growing uncertainty about their future” — excellent reporting by @justinsalhani.bsky.social on how Israel's war on Lebanon is impacting children
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Lebanon’s children face physical, psychological trauma amid Israel’s war
Experts warn of lasting trauma for Lebanon's children as war continues to shatter their sense of safety.
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sasansandy.bsky.social @sasansandy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If people listen to this episode by Adam Shatz joined by @muhammadshehada.bsky.social and @jehadabusalim.bsky.social they would be horrified about what's happened and is still happening... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
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Gaza after the Ceasefire
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 27 May · 1hr 10min
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
On the @lrb.co.uk podcast this week, I speak with @muhammadshehada.bsky.social and @jehadabusalim.bsky.social about Gaza since the “ceasefire.” www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Podcast: Adam Shatz, Muhammad Shehada and Jehad Abusalim · Gaza after the Ceasefire
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George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Adam was a terrific conversation partner, thank you so much for
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Sean Jacob’s outstanding essay on Abdullah Ibrahim captures the man and his music, his life and times, the grandeur and complexity of the anti-apartheid struggle to which Ibrahim contributed so mightily as an artist. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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Songs of Liberation | Sean Jacobs
In 1960 the writer Bessie Head—yet to publish the novels that would make her a leading figure in South African and Batswana literature—interviewed a young
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
George Grella asked me to be in conversation with him about his terrific new book on minimalist music, in an event sponsored by the Brooklyn Rail. We had a great exchange and now it’s on YouTube. @gtra1n.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=d7TE...
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NSE #1362 | George Grella and Adam Shatz
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thinking of Rollins, Davis, and all the others of their generation, I remember Adam Shatz writing recently in the LRB: "Yet, paradoxically, it was jazz in particular, and Black music more generally, that prevented me, as it still does, from giving up on America." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/05/2026
On the podcast: since the Gaza ceasefire, 904 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2700 wounded. @adamshatz.bsky.social, @muhammadshehada.bsky.social and @jehadabusalim.bsky.social discuss the crisis on the ground and the so-called reconstruction. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
On the @lrb.co.uk podcast this week, I speak with @muhammadshehada.bsky.social and @jehadabusalim.bsky.social about Gaza since the “ceasefire.” www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Podcast: Adam Shatz, Muhammad Shehada and Jehad Abusalim · Gaza after the Ceasefire
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