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November 7, 2011
in American History, History, Literature, Social Science

Literature Matters; Lionel Trilling Matters

November 7, 2011
in American History, History, Literature, Social Science

In Why Trilling Matters, from Yale University Press’s Why X Matters Series, Adam Kirsch makes a compelling argument for why mid-century American literary critic Lionel Trilling might matter thirty-six years after his death. Yet the importance of a literary critic rests on the more fundamental question of the importance of

November 3, 2011
in Law, Literature, Psychology

Why is William Ian Miller Losing It?

November 3, 2011
in Law, Literature, Psychology

William Ian Miller is 65 years old. Yet, rather than trying to conceal his age—a practice that has grown commonplace in our age of cosmetic surgery—he has written a book about it. Losing It: In which an Aging Professor laments his shrinking Brain, new from Yale University Press this fall,