Adam Shatz

Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a visiting professor at Bard College. He holds a BA in history from Columbia University. Shatz is the author of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 2024), Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso, 2023), and Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel (Nation Books, 2004). His essays on culture and politics have appeared in the London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, New York Times, and New York Times Magazine, among others. Shatz is a frequent host of the London Review of Books podcast, and the host of “Myself with Others”—a podcast about the life of ideas, featuring conversations with creative individuals in the arts, culture, and writing. Shatz has received support from the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Institute for the Humanities, NYU’s Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY Graduate Center. The recipient of a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship, he will be a visiting fellow at the American Library in Paris in summer 2024. In 2021, he was made a French Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et lettres for his writings on French culture.