Originally published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Contenidos : A small place


Wartime lies


Black man, white city


Toward a Black existentialism


Refusal of the mask


The practice of disalienation


A world cut in two


The Algerian explosion


Vertigo in Tunis


Disalienating psychiatry


Fanon’s “tape recorder”


Black Algeria


Phantom Africa


“Create the continent”


Roads to freedom


Voice of the damned



In the Country of Lynchers


Epilogue — “Specters of Fanon”


The book includes photographs — 8 pages of black‑and‑white photographs.

In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon's shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon's stunning journey, which has all the twists of a Cold War-era thriller. Fanon left his modest home in Martinique to fight in the French Army during World War II; when the war was over, he fell under the influence of Existentialism while studying medicine in Lyon and trying to make sense of his experiences as a Black man in a white city. Fanon went on to practice a novel psychiatry of "dis-alienation" in rural France and Algeria, and then join the Algerian independence struggle, where he became a spokesman, diplomat, and clandestine strategist. He died in 1961, while under the care of the CIA in a Maryland hospital. Today, Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth have become canonical texts of the Black and global radical imagination, comparable to James Baldwin's essays in their influence. And yet they are little understood. In The Rebel's Clinic, Shatz offers a dramatic reconstruction of Fanon's extraordinary life -- and a guide to the books that underlie today's most vital efforts to challenge white supremacy and racial capitalism.