Lionel Trilling: America’s Matthew Arnold
The great critic’s letters reveal his struggles with anti-Semitism and disillusion with Marxism
New way to tell a terrible story
New graphic novels take on difficult subject matter: the lives of Hannah Arendt and Anne Frank
Acerbic enemy of cowardice
The latest volume of Frederic Raphael's diaries is a book full of bite and feline gossip
The link between art and heart
A new Barbican exhibition explores how two were often better than one in the creative process
Escaping the Moscow ghetto
How a brilliant young Russian mathematician was blocked by blatant Soviet anti-Semitism