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Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Adam Kirsch, seeking to restore Trilling to his rightful place in the literary and intellectual world, tells us ...

Lionel Trilling’s 1950 book The Liberal Imagination was not a celebration of liberalism. It was an indictment of liberalism’s dependence on what we might call the social imagination—a method of ...

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Although Lionel Trilling's third collection of essay is, in deed, a gathering of fugitive pieces with little collective raison d'etre except the profits which he and the Beacon Press will reap from ...

Drawing from an unpublished, May 1968, interview with Trilling. The seventy-five-page interview with Lionel Trilling conducted in May 1968, which I recently discovered in the Oral History Research ...

Letters of Lionel Trilling (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), 464 pp., $35.00. Lionel Trilling’s eminence was so great, however, that he reached near celebrity status as a literary critic.