12th January 2011
Solitary Confinement
“After being diagnosed with ALS in 2008, Tony Judt undertook two major projects. The first was his last public lecture, at NYU, in which he made the case for community, social democracy, and elevated public discourse. He converted it to the brief, polemical book Ill Fares the Land. The second and more remarkable project was Judt’s final book, a memoir entitled The Memory Chalet, which collects his last, highly autobiographical essays from the New York Review.
