A RECENT CASUAL, DISMISSIVE reference to Lionel Trilling recalled to me the man who was the most eminent intellectual figure of his time–certainly in New York intellectual circles, but also beyond ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his 1963 essay “The Critic’s Credentials,” Stanley Edgar Hyman made this claim: “Our world is a multiverse and complex one, and our literature accurately reflects it. Unless the critic’s equipment ...

The conventional wisdom about Lionel Trilling, Adam Kirsch writes in Why Trilling Matters, is that he was a “thwarted creator,” a writer who would rather have written novels than essays about them.

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 ...

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.

When the feuding tramps in "Waiting for Godot" trade insults, Gogo ends the exchange with a slur so vicious it leaves Didi speechless: "Crritic!" He doesn't explain what he means, and doesn't need to.

Cats do all sorts of confusing things, but that's one of the many reasons we love them so much … they keep us on our toes! Of the many unique sounds they make — meowing, hissing, purring — there's one ...

Don’t tell Wendi Trilling there’s a comedy drought in primetime. CBS’ top comedy programming exec has groomed the next generation of Eye laffer comedy hits during the past few seasons. The net was ...

In one of the biggest personnel changes in the broadcast comedy business in years, network TV’s preeminent comedy development executive, CBS‘ EVP Wendi Trilling, is leaving after a stint at the net ...