Arts & Humanities

Trilling's  essays mapped the terrain where literary, political, and social questions overlapped. His colleague Quentin Anderson also remembers him as a devoted teacher and mentor 

The dean of Barnard College and adviser to Columbia Women Graduate Students did more to advance the cause of women at Columbia than any other person of her time

Reflections from Jacques Barzun

In the last years of his productive life Krutch had become a lover of lizards and a confidant of coyotes

Though he may well be remembered most for his remarkable nature writing, it was as a cultural critic that Krutch gained his earliest recognition

Krutch's classes were filled with entertainment, wit, and information as well as critical insights

Four biographical essays by Jack Beeson