@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).
@adamshatz.bsky.socialOn October 29 I'll be moderating an LRB panel at the New School about US-Israel relations, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Walt-Mearsheimer Israel Lobby article. The panelists: Rob Malley, Nadia Abu El-Haj, Ian Lustick. Sign up if you're interested, asap...
@adamshatz.bsky.social@adamshatz.bsky.socialReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.socialMy new book(FSG, June 2027) explores, among others: John and Alice Coltrane, Ornette, Nina Simone, Bill Dixon, Don Cherry, Mingus, Miles, Hendrix, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Hemphill, Marion Brown, the AACM, Amina Claudine Myers, Jeanne Lee, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn…
@adamshatz.bsky.socialAlso on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=u6VC...
@lrb.co.ukReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.socialOn the podcast: @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social join @adamshatz.bsky.social to discuss what fascism looks like in the age of AI, and why we have reached a point where tech billionaires declare they are ‘unapologetically on Team Humanity’.
@adamshatz.bsky.socialOn the latest LRB podcast I spoke to Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their much discussed book “End Times Fascism,” an ambitious attempt to capture the singularity of our political moment, from rightwing authoritarianism to Evangelical fundamentalism, from AI to climate change.
@adamshatz.bsky.socialMy new book(FSG, June 2027) explores, among others: John and Alice Coltrane, Ornette, Nina Simone, Bill Dixon, Don Cherry, Mingus, Miles, Hendrix, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Hemphill, Marion Brown, the AACM, Amina Claudine Myers, Jeanne Lee, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn…
@lrb.co.ukReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.social‘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.
@lrb.co.ukReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.social‘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.
@james3neal.bsky.socialReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.socialI 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?...
@estelle.eurosky.socialReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.socialIn "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
@sarahemilyduff.bsky.socialReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.social“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:
@lrb.co.ukReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.social‘“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.
@dominicumile.comReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.socialLisette 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...
@remarquenyu.bsky.socialReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.socialWatch 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...
@lrb.co.ukReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.social‘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.
@adamshatz.bsky.socialIf 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.
@adamshatz.bsky.socialRichard Lloyd Parry, writing brilliantly in the @lrb.co.uk on the “Kimmification“ of American politics. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.socialA 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...
@jazyjef.bsky.socialReposted by @adamshatz.bsky.socialIn 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