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“If John Coltrane’s music is defined by a relentless, agonized seeking, Alice Coltrane’s is illuminated by the radiance of arrival.” —Adam Shatz
The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“If John Coltrane’s music is defined by a relentless, agonized seeking, Alice Coltrane’s is illuminated by the radiance of arrival.” —Adam Shatz
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Adam Shatz on the transcendent life and music of Alice Coltrane
The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Adam Shatz on the transcendent life and music of Alice Coltrane
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The instinct to treat Mamdani as a local phenomenon ignores the reality of the Americans behind his win.
He won Black, Hispanic, middle, and working class voters. A similar coalition elected Obama.This is the heart of the Democratic coalition, not its fringe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
He won Black, Hispanic, middle, and working class voters. A similar coalition elected Obama.This is the heart of the Democratic coalition, not its fringe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
Opinion | Don’t Overlook the Coalition Mamdani Built
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The instinct to treat Mamdani as a local phenomenon ignores the reality of the Americans behind his win.
He won Black, Hispanic, middle, and working class voters. A similar coalition elected Obama.This is the heart of the Democratic coalition, not its fringe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
He won Black, Hispanic, middle, and working class voters. A similar coalition elected Obama.This is the heart of the Democratic coalition, not its fringe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
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“That Alice Coltrane, an African American woman from Detroit, died a Hindu guru in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains is a story no less extraordinary than her husband’s.” —Adam Shatz
The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“That Alice Coltrane, an African American woman from Detroit, died a Hindu guru in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains is a story no less extraordinary than her husband’s.” —Adam Shatz
Thrilled to be nominated for a Grammy for best liner notes, and deeply grateful to Anouar Brahem for inviting me to write about his powerful album ‘Before the Last Sky,’ a reflection on the Palestinian condition— and the human condition—after the destruction of Gaza. variety.com/2025/music/n...
Grammy Nominations 2026: Kendrick Lamar Leads With Nine as Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Leon Thomas Land Among Top Nominees
Grammy nominations for 2026 are being unveiled. Check our updating list to see how Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny and Chappell Roan are faring.
variety.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Thrilled to be nominated for a Grammy for best liner notes, and deeply grateful to Anouar Brahem for inviting me to write about his powerful album ‘Before the Last Sky,’ a reflection on the Palestinian condition— and the human condition—after the destruction of Gaza. variety.com/2025/music/n...
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The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
I’m not a believer but I very much believe in the power of Alice Coltrane’s work. In the new @nybooks.com I write her musical and spiritual journey. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I’m not a believer but I very much believe in the power of Alice Coltrane’s work. In the new @nybooks.com I write her musical and spiritual journey. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
It was a great pleasure to talk to Robert Malley about Israel-Palestine, the failures of US diplomacy and his experiences as a negotiator.
On the podcast: Adam Shatz is joined by Robert Malley to discuss the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and the long history of the peace process, in which Malley has been involved on behalf of several US administrations. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Lessons from the Peace Process
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 10/10/2025 · 1h 1m
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October 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It was a great pleasure to talk to Robert Malley about Israel-Palestine, the failures of US diplomacy and his experiences as a negotiator.
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Don't miss out on this engaging book talk with Robert Malley, as he discusses his most recent publication: Tomorrow is Yesterday.
📆 October 23, 2025 | 5:30-7 PM
🎤 Robert Malley , Adam Shatz
📍 Ettinghausen Library | 255 Sullivan St.
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📆 October 23, 2025 | 5:30-7 PM
🎤 Robert Malley , Adam Shatz
📍 Ettinghausen Library | 255 Sullivan St.
🖇️ buff.ly/lLQFfUE
October 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Don't miss out on this engaging book talk with Robert Malley, as he discusses his most recent publication: Tomorrow is Yesterday.
📆 October 23, 2025 | 5:30-7 PM
🎤 Robert Malley , Adam Shatz
📍 Ettinghausen Library | 255 Sullivan St.
🖇️ buff.ly/lLQFfUE
📆 October 23, 2025 | 5:30-7 PM
🎤 Robert Malley , Adam Shatz
📍 Ettinghausen Library | 255 Sullivan St.
🖇️ buff.ly/lLQFfUE
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La guerre avec l’#Iran est l’aboutissement des efforts d’#Israël pour restaurer son image d’invincibilité, brisée le 7 octobre 2023, pour régler ses comptes avec ses ennemis et pour s’imposer comme le pouvoir dominant de la région.
A lire sur @orientxxi.bsky.social
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A lire sur @orientxxi.bsky.social
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August 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
La guerre avec l’#Iran est l’aboutissement des efforts d’#Israël pour restaurer son image d’invincibilité, brisée le 7 octobre 2023, pour régler ses comptes avec ses ennemis et pour s’imposer comme le pouvoir dominant de la région.
A lire sur @orientxxi.bsky.social
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A lire sur @orientxxi.bsky.social
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De l' #Iran à #Gaza, la guerre sans fin d' #IIsraël
Le plan du premier ministre israélien Benyamin Nétanyahou se confirme : anéantir Gaza, étendre le théâtre des conflits, engager son pays dans une guerre sans fin pour l’hégémonie régionale.
Par Adam Shatz
Le plan du premier ministre israélien Benyamin Nétanyahou se confirme : anéantir Gaza, étendre le théâtre des conflits, engager son pays dans une guerre sans fin pour l’hégémonie régionale.
Par Adam Shatz
De l'Iran à Gaza, la guerre sans fin d'Israël
C’est une nouvelle étape qui s’est ouverte au Proche-Orient, avec l’attaque israélo-étatsunienne contre l’Iran. Même si les hostilités ont cessé, le plan du (…)
orientxxi.info
August 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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"The jazz pianist Amina Claudine Myers has spent her career weaving jazz, blues, gospel, and classical music into a distinctively personal idiom" @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
‘Like a Hymn’ | Adam Shatz
In June 1980 Amina Claudine Myers was in a New York City studio, recording a tribute to the great blues singer Bessie Smith, when she began to improvise a
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August 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"The jazz pianist Amina Claudine Myers has spent her career weaving jazz, blues, gospel, and classical music into a distinctively personal idiom" @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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‘That Germany has a responsibility to remember the Holocaust is beyond question. But it’s striking how little concern there is for other populations that have experienced racial discrimination or violence at the hands of the Germans.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary
Throughout my stay in Berlin, I kept hearing from Germans quietly critical of Israel that ‘cracks’ had begun to...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
‘That Germany has a responsibility to remember the Holocaust is beyond question. But it’s striking how little concern there is for other populations that have experienced racial discrimination or violence at the hands of the Germans.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“The beauty of her touch, the spareness of the playing, create room for contemplation, allowing the listener’s mind to fill the spaces between the notes.” — @adamshatz.bsky.social on Amina Claudine Myers
‘Like a Hymn’ | Adam Shatz
In June 1980 Amina Claudine Myers was in a New York City studio, recording a tribute to the great blues singer Bessie Smith, when she began to improvise a
buff.ly
August 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“The beauty of her touch, the spareness of the playing, create room for contemplation, allowing the listener’s mind to fill the spaces between the notes.” — @adamshatz.bsky.social on Amina Claudine Myers
Stefan Tarnowski on the ‘logic of disavowal’ in Western reporting on Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Stefan Tarnowski | Plausible Deniability
From the sieges within the siege, Palestinian journalists are smeared as terrorists and assassinated by airstrike. Even...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Stefan Tarnowski on the ‘logic of disavowal’ in Western reporting on Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
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‘The presence of an increasingly large Muslim population has helped relieve German society of the burden of memory, allowing it to shift the blame for antisemitism to people of Middle Eastern origin, and thereby reaffirm Germany’s vigilance.’
Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary
Throughout my stay in Berlin, I kept hearing from Germans quietly critical of Israel that ‘cracks’ had begun to...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
‘The presence of an increasingly large Muslim population has helped relieve German society of the burden of memory, allowing it to shift the blame for antisemitism to people of Middle Eastern origin, and thereby reaffirm Germany’s vigilance.’
Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social on Amina Claudine Myers
‘Like a Hymn’ | Adam Shatz
In June 1980 Amina Claudine Myers was in a New York City studio, recording a tribute to the great blues singer Bessie Smith, when she began to improvise a
buff.ly
August 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social on Amina Claudine Myers
In the LRB, I write about the complicity, denial and evasiveness that have characterized Germany’s response to the destruction of Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary
Throughout my stay in Berlin, I kept hearing from Germans quietly critical of Israel that ‘cracks’ had begun to...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In the LRB, I write about the complicity, denial and evasiveness that have characterized Germany’s response to the destruction of Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It’s always seemed strange to me that Amina Claudine Myers, one of our great musical artists, isn’t better known. I hope this piece helps to spread the word. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
‘Like a Hymn’ | Adam Shatz
In June 1980 Amina Claudine Myers was in a New York City studio, recording a tribute to the great blues singer Bessie Smith, when she began to improvise a
www.nybooks.com
August 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It’s always seemed strange to me that Amina Claudine Myers, one of our great musical artists, isn’t better known. I hope this piece helps to spread the word. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...