This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The intellectual connection between James Baldwin and Lionel Trilling, and the resonances across their criticism, are more substantial ...

Orwell was so peculiar to his age that Lionel Trilling calls him "virtuous". The label is a confirmation of Orwell's diagnosis of a sick world for an age so amazed at virtue is an age when nice ...

Can painting alter the course of our politics? By John Banville Many a soul has perished at what the critic Lionel Trilling called the bloody crossroads where art and politics meet – Trilling spoke of ...