Adam Shatz

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Literary Criticism


“Outcasts and Desperadoes,” on Richard Wright’s Double Vision, October 7 2021, London Review of Books

“How does it feel to be a white man?”, on William Gardner Smith’s exile in Paris, The New Yorker online, August 2019

"Writing Absurdity," on Chester Himes, London Review of Books, 2018

"Promenade Dora-Bruder," on Patrick Modiano
London Review of Books, 2016

"Colombey-les-Deux-Mosquées," on Michel Houellebecq
London Review of Books, 2015

"Ça va un peu," on the history of the Congo
London Review of Books, 2014

"At the Crime Scene," on Alain Robbe-Grillet
London Review of Books, 2014

"A Little Feu de Joie," on the Iranian Revolution
London Review of Books, 2013

"Black, not Noir," on Sonallah Ibrahim
London Review of Books, 2013

"Wanting to Be Something Else," on Orhan Pamuk
London Review of Books, 2010

"One Big Murder Mystery," on Yasmina Khadra
London Review of Books, 2004