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.

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."

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.

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

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."