Butcher, penned by the gifted Joyce Carol Oates, is an extraordinary and arresting novel set against the backdrop of a women's asylum in the 19th century. This harrowing tale draws upon authentic historical documents to weave a narrative around Dr. Silas Weir, known as "The Father of Gyno-Psychiatry." After a disastrous procedure that tarnishes his reputation, Weir finds himself at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where his rule is absolute.

Within these walls, Dr. Weir operates without restraint, gaining notoriety for his work with women neglected by the state. His career is marked by grotesque experiments, particularly focused on a young Irish indentured servant named Brigit. Brigit becomes both the centerpiece of Weir's experiments and the catalyst for his eventual downfall.

The story is narrated by Weir's eldest son, who has denounced the cruel legacy of his father. Butcher is a blend of fact and fiction, a chilling journey through the darkest corners of the American psyche, culminating in a startling conclusion that intertwines terror with an unexpected romance.

With Butcher, Joyce Carol Oates reaffirms her status as one of our premier American visionaries of the imagination.

Since his death in 1961 at the age of thirty-six, Frantz Fanon has loomed ever larger. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power have inspired radical movements across the world. But who was Frantz Fanon? In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon's stunning journey--from a civil servant's modest home in Martinique to fighting in the French Army during World War II, practicing psychiatry in rural France and Algeria, and joining the Algerian independence struggle, where he became a spokesman, diplomat, and clandestine strategist before his death at a military hospital in Maryland.

Shatz situates Fanon's writings in the context of his close and contested relations with the French intellectuals of his era, as well as his encounters with psychiatric patients, guerrilla fighters, and the early leaders of independent African states. Today, Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth have become canonical texts of the Black and global radical imagination, comparable to James Baldwin's essays in their influence. And yet they are little understood. In The Rebel's Clinic, Shatz offers a dramatic reconstruction of Fanon's extraordinary life--and a guide to the books that underlie Black Lives Matter and other groups attempting to challenge white supremacy and racial capitalism.