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Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling by Lionel Trilling New Year came from the shtetlsA great critics quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondenceIn the mid twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was Americas most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, The Liberal Imagination, sold more than 100,000 copies, epitomizing a time that has been called the age of criticism. To his New