Tony Judt's memoir essays in NY Review of Books

[ghost of miles]

Has anybody else been following Tony Judt's memoir essays over the past year or so in the NY Review of Books? Judt's been a longtime favorite of mine, ever since I read his Past Imperfect (a book about the French intellectual left's Stalinist denialism) in the 1990s...his more recent Postwar is an excellent historical overview of what's happened in Europe over the past 60 years. In 2008 Judt was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease, and in 2009 he became paralyzed from the neck down. Despite these significant physical impediments, he continues to write, and has produced a number of remarkable pieces for the NY Review of Books...I just finished reading the most recent one, "On Austerity and Being Jewish" (a two-topic reflection on the postwar conditions in England when Judt was a child, and on his Jewish identity.) Some of the articles are accessible online here:

Tony Judt at NY Review of Books

Edited May 10, 2010 by ghost of miles

[ghost of miles]

Judt has passed away at the age of 62.

[danasgoodstuff]

Sorry to hear that he's gone, yes I have been reading his recent NYR stuff, with mixed feelings - have to go back and review to say anything more intelligent than that and I don't really have time...hopefully someone else will have something more substantive to add.

[ghost of miles]

Timothy Garton Ash's tribute at the New York Review of Books blog.