Lionel Trilling (1905-75) is the author of the collections Beyond Culture , The Liberal Imagination , and the posthumously published Speaking of Literature and Society .
Leon Wieseltier is the editor of The New Republic and lives in New York City..
He was a professor at Columbia University.
Lionel Trilling (1905-75) is the author of the collections Beyond Culture , The Liberal Imagination , and the posthumously published Speaking of Literature and Society