Nimble and engrossing ... An examplary work ... At times as I read The Rebel’s Clinic, I yearned for a little more insight not into Fanon the brilliant doctor or Fanon the rousing revolutionary but Fanon the person ... Eloquent.
Absorbing ... Shatz...is a mostly steady hand in turbulent waters ... Part of what gives The Rebel’s Clinic its intellectual heft is Shatz’s willingness to write into such tensions.
Sober and thorough ... One gift of The Rebel’s Clinic is that it amplifies the radical nature of Fanon’s work within the hospital setting ... hatz spends enough time complicating the language around violence that we lose sight of the fact that Fanon saw the undivided collective—rather than any particular means to bring it about, violent or otherwise—as the key to resistance, that which he celebrated, codified, and offered back to the world.
