We Laughed, We Clowned
Michael Wood: Diana Trilling, 29 June 2017
The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling
by Natalie Robins.
Columbia, 399 pp., £25, June 2017,978 0 231 18208 9 Show More
by Natalie Robins.
Columbia, 399 pp., £25, June 2017,
“... have missed on previous occasions. Two of her Partisan Review essays – on the cancellation of Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance in 1954 and on a Beat poets’ reading at Columbia in 1958 – stand out for me in this respect. Like a good liberal – ‘I was against both communism and McCarthyism. They were enemies of each other, but I was the ... ”