Adam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is also a visiting professor at Bard College, and the host of the podcast “Myself with Others,” produced by the pianist Richard Sears. Raised in Massachusetts, he studied history at Columbia University and has lived in New York City since 1990. He is the author of three books: Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel (Nation Books); Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso); and The Rebel’s Clinic: the Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (FSG), which won the American Library in Paris Award for best book on a French subject in 2024. His liner notes for Anouar Brahem’s album After the Last Sky were nominated for a Grammy Award in 2025. Shatz has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Guggenheim, the American Academy in Berlin, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. In spring 2027 Farrar Straus and Giroux will publish Shatz’s history of avant-garde Black music since 1960, IN SEARCH OF A SOUND: DREAMS OF A NEW BLACK MUSIC.