RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksIf Alyan’s couplets lack the precision and melancholy wit of Shahid’s ghazals, the best of them capture the rich musicality of the form, providing a counterpoint to the sparseness of other poems in the collection ... Though often challenging, the poems of The Moon That Turns You Back are always soulful, a testament to what Alyan has done with wreckage.
Adam Shatz
PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksCaptures the restless energy that makes Frantz Fanon such a compelling figure ... Given Fanon’s continuing influence, from the seminar room to social media to the streets, few would object to another effort to tell the story of his extraordinary life. Adam Shatz is well positioned to do so ... The book’s many supporting characters are skillfully evoked.
Adam Shatz
PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksAn impressive accomplishment ... The range is impressive (if gendered) and has the virtue of putting Fanon into conversation with a variety of perspectives, but Fanon sometimes gets lost in the crowd ... Skillful as these chapters are in presenting Fanon’s shifting contexts, the man himself remains elusive.
