You Are the Snake offers a glimpse into the lives of characters who straddle the line between conformity and rebellion. In this collection of previously unpublished stories, we are introduced to a range of individuals, from a community college student to an imaginative portrayal of an abusive grandmother, and a young woman discovering her passion for gardening.

The characters crafted by Juliet Escoria are complex—they either strive to meet society's expectations or defiantly turn away from them. These stories exploit the short story form, showcasing Escoria's unique voice that challenges conventional storytelling and resists the temptation for simple moral lessons.

Exploring themes such as girlhood and the transition into womanhood, Escoria does not shy away from the peculiar, the impulsive, and the desires that drive us. Each narrative is set in its own distinct environment, from the suburbs of California to the mountains of West Virginia, and together they form a tapestry that expands and defies preconceived notions of what women are capable of writing and being.

Juliet Escoria's prose has been lauded for its vividness and honesty, and You Are the Snake continues to deliver with its charged and eloquent storytelling. The maturity and style of the short story format are a perfect vessel for Escoria's electric narrative energy.

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.