Volume 48, Number 1 · January 11, 2001
Night Vision
By Andrew Delbanco
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
by Lionel Trilling, edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 572 pp., $35.00
A critic who continues to be read twenty-five years after his death is sufficiently rare to be called, in the colloquial sense of the word, a phenomenon. The odds are against it, in part because criticism tends to be entangled in a web of current references that unravels over time, leaving future readers perplexed or indifferent. This new selection of essays by Lionel Trilling constitutes a wager that he has beaten the odds, and will last.
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