★★★★☆ The last sensitive white boy, as he bragged in almost those words; a man as important as he was self-important, as full of wisdom as he was full of shit.
★★★★☆ An intricate, idiosyncratic survey of empire and rebellion which makes a strong argument for the Atlantic character of the Age of Revolution
★★★★★ Fanon’s righteous fury is kept remarkably restrained as he examines the necessity and nature of violent anticolonialism
★★★☆☆ Although erudite and often beautiful, the author’s liberal sympathies prevent him from fully developing his ‘thesis of violence’.