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In the following interview, Trilling discusses her disappointment in the intellectual community of the 1970s.
Since the recent death of her husband, Lionel, Diana Trilling has continued to live in the...
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In the following review, Radosh finds Trilling's interpretations of events in the 1960s in We Must March My Darlings shallow and simplistic.
Our cultural history continues to be packaged by de...
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In the following review, Watson examines Trilling's portrayal of the American intelligentsia in We Must March My Darlings.
“You see” Lionel Trilling is said to have once remarked ...
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In the following review, Atlas finds in Trilling's collection of her 1940s book reviews intimations of her later essayist's voice, but overall questions the purpose of publishing the col...
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In the following review, Scott compares Trilling's Reviewing the Forties with Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader for its “quiet pleasure.”
If one is of a sufficient age, ...
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In the following review, Yardley finds Mrs. Harris, and the murder case upon which it was based, shallow and worth neither writing nor reading about.
Diana Trilling has written a long, occasionally i...
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In the following review, Maloff faults what he considers Trilling's psychoanalytic misreading of the Scarsdale murder, finding that her interpretation of the case is closer to pulp fiction than...
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In the following review, Grosskurth finds in Mrs. Harris what he considers an unnecessarily disdainful attitude toward the principal characters in the murder case.
Just about everyone knows most of th...
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In the following essay, McCreadie identifies traits specific to women film critics, including Trilling.
If one thinks it is still to be proven that women film critics generally react more directly, mo...
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In the following interview, Trilling and Harris discuss Trilling's life and career.
It is the fate of notable literary figures to be relegated for safekeeping to a pathetically simple symbolic ...
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In the following review, Kramer excoriates Trilling for what he considers her uncompassionate and overly Freudian portrait of her husband in The Beginning of the Journey.
Why can't incompatible...
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In the following review, Eder discusses several flaws in The Beginning of the Journey.
There is a time for memoirs. Some are premature—those written to record events rather than to transform th...
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In the following review, Rose finds The Beginning of the Journey to be a powerful, if at times unsettling, examination of self, marriage, and the intellectual circle.
A friend who reached the age of ...
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In the following interview, Trilling discusses reviews ofThe Beginning of the Journey, as well as her relationships with her publisher and editor and her writing method.
Diana Trilling, at 88, is not ...
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In the following review, Birkerts faults Trilling for not presenting a more complete portrait of her husband in The Beginning of the Journey but otherwise considers it a work of great importance to th...
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In the following review, Lynn focuses on Trilling's portrayal of her husband, Lionel, in The Beginning of the Journey.
The New York intellectuals of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s were “ove...
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In the following review, Heilman praises Trilling's ability in The Beginning of the Journey to move fluidly among her various topics and laments the loss of critics of Lionel Trilling's...
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In the following review, Krupnick finds The Beginning of the Journey self-serving and harshly critical of Lionel Trilling yet maintains that it is Diana Trilling's best book.
Since the death o...
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In the following essay, Balbert argues against Trilling's interpretation of D. H. Lawrence's Mr Noon.
“Is not the marriage bed a fiery battlefield as well as a perfect communion, ...
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Interview by Diana Trilling with Bruce Cook
