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Tony Judt’s The Memory Chalet: Review

The great public intellectual died in August, but he left behind a final work unlike anything else he had written before. John Gray salutes a moving life that crossed the 20th century.

John Gray
John Gray
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Tony Judt in 2006. (Luis Magàn / Newscom)
John Gray

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