Tony Judt

Tony Judt was a professor of European studies at New York University and the author of Marxism and the French Left and Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945. Eric Hobsbawm and Adam Shatz both wrote about him in the LRB after his death in 2010, and an interview with him was published in the paper shortly before it

Letter

Questions of Malevolence

20 February 1997

Neal Ascherson’s generous review of Norman Davies’s Europe: A History (LRB, 20 February) raises a number of troubling questions. The book, as even Ascherson acknowledges, is full of errors, yet these apparently in no way reduce its ‘intellectual achievement’. Really? There are eight errors on one page in Chapter 7. In Chapter 11 we learn that the Nazis supported Papen in 1932 (they didn’t);...

Pieces about Tony Judt in the LRB

The Atlantic Gap: Europe since the War

Neal Ascherson, 17 November 2005

As soon as you realise how good it is, this book will frighten you. This is not just a history. It is a highly intrusive biography, especially if, like me, you belong to the British generations...

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Exit Sartre

Fredric Jameson, 7 July 1994

These two books take an essentially British perspective on the history of fellow-travelling in France since World War Two. Armed with the magic cap of François Furet’s...

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