Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one of the biggest personnel changes in the broadcast comedy business in years, network TV’s preeminent comedy development ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Lionel Trilling bears, doubtless with fortitude, the most aggressively euphonious name of any writer since Edna St. Vincent Millay. He also, it seems to me, owns and operates one of the most ...