It has been a particularly good year for memoir: Edmund DE Waal, Luke Jennings, Tony Judt and Candia McWilliam have all written books that are better than most of the year's offerings in fiction.

回忆录最出色的一年：埃德蒙·德·瓦尔、路克·詹宁斯、托尼·朱迪特和坎迪娅·迈克威廉都写了回忆录，超过了今年大部分的小说。

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Tony Judt who died in 2010, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative disease that completely disables the body while leaving the mind intact shares with Rothkopf an insistent disapproval of the current apotheosis of global finance.

NEWYORKER: Evening the Odds

Tony Judt, a scholar at New York University who has written widely on modern French culture and ideas, suggests that one useful way to take writing about France by foreigners is to stand it on its head.

ECONOMIST: If in doubt, bash the French