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Adam Shatz

@adamshatz.bsky.social

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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London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 5d ago

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...

The long history of Black voter suppression in the US

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 31 July · 1hr 2min

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Omair Ahmad@omairahmad.bsky.social · last mo.

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."

Adam Shatz@adamshatz.bsky.social · last mo.

Essential piece from @muhammadshehada.bsky.social Muhammad Shehada: Marwan Barghouti and Palestine’s future app.lrb.co.uk/2026/06/26/m...

Adam Shatz@adamshatz.bsky.social · last mo.

"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...

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 · 2mo ago

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.
Robin Kinross@kinross.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

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 · 4mo ago

Hours before the ceasefire was announced, I spoke with Mohamad Bazzi and Joëlle Abi-Rached about the war in (and on) Lebanon.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 4mo ago

On the podcast: @adamshatz.bsky.social is joined by @joelleabirached.bsky.social and @mbazzi.bsky.social to discuss life on the ground in Lebanon, Israel’s strategic objectives in the region and Hizbullah’s relationship to the the Lebanese state. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Adam Shatz@adamshatz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In short, Zohran Mamdani has shown what leadership with integrity looks like, and how to use power to improve people’s lives, not to destroy them.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies -Cracked down on predatory landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

Adam Shatz@adamshatz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Trump’s latest - genocidal - threat against Iran reminds one of a quote often attributed to Oscar Wilde: “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

Adam Shatz@adamshatz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Splendid reporting by my friend Eyal Press in the @newyorker.com — must-reading for anyone curious about the impact of Israe’s destruction of Gaza (and wars against Iran, Lebanon, etc) on practicing American Jews. @epress.bsky.social

Eyal Press@epress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Half a century ago, Norman Podhoretz celebrated the fact that virtually all American Jews had been “converted to Zionism.” Fifty years later, the consensus he hailed has shattered, as I report in this week’s issue of The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...