Lionel Trilling

A Great Essayist, Critic, and Scholar Evaluates the Real, and Imagined, Lessons of the Holocaust

In memoriam.

Edward Alexander

Aug. 24 2020 12:01AM

Isaiah Berlin, Lionel Trilling, and Saul Bellow on the Unrest of the Late 1960s

Remembrance of riots past.

David Herman

June 24 2020 12:01AM

On the Subject of Judaism, Lionel Trilling Protested a Bit Too Much

Did his deracinated outlook subvert his own literary career?

Joseph Epstein

Feb. 27 2019 12:01AM

Lionel Trilling's Jewish Problem

A leading light of the famous New York Intellectuals harbored deeply conflicted feelings about his own Jewishness, and exceptionally harsh views on Jews and Judaism.

Edward Alexander

Oct. 11 2018 12:01AM

The Making of a New York Jewish Intellectual

Making It turns 50.

Norman and John Podhoretz

May 9 2017 12:01AM

M.H. Abrams: A Pioneering Jewish Professor of English Literature

The last of a pioneering generation of literary scholars just passed away.

Adam Kirsch

April 24 2015 12:01AM

Culture and the Classroom

Programs of Jewish studies in colleges and universities have added greatly to the possibilities for Jewish self-understanding. But they offer no sure pathway to Jewish identity.

Michael Weingrad

May 11 2014 12:00PM