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Tag: Lionel Trilling

0 Literature History

Robert Alter in Jewish Review of Books · 14 Sep 2018

Lionel Trilling, a prominent figure in American literary criticism, is explored through a selection of his letters in Adam Kirsch's book, shedding light on Trilling's life and American intellectual culture from the 1920s to the 1970s.

0 Literature Gender/Identity

Journeys Without End

Michael Kimmage in Jewish Review of Books · 18 Sep 2017

Diana Trilling, a prominent 20th-century writer and intellectual married to renowned critic Lionel Trilling, is the subject of Natalie Robins' biography "The Untold Journey."

0 Education Literature

The Life of the Flying Aperçu

Alan Mintz in Jewish Review of Books · 17 Jun 2015

Morris Dickstein's memoir "The Life of the Flying Aperu" provides an insightful account of his sentimental education, focusing on his Jewish identity and intellectual journey at Columbia University in the 1960s.

0 Literature Culture

Trilling, Babel, and the Rabbis

Adam Kirsch in Jewish Review of Books · 27 Feb 2013

Lionel Trilling, a prominent Jewish intellectual, faced criticism for not depicting Jewish characters in his work, despite having Eastern European Jewish heritage.

0 Politics Ethics

Why Obama Should Read Trilling

Yoav Fromer in Tablet · 5 Jul 2012

The article discusses the moral dilemma and inaction of the Obama Administration in response to the escalating violence in Syria, drawing parallels to the concept of the "morality of inertia" as explained by the Jewish literary critic Lionel Trilling in his essay "The Morality of Inertia."