Michael Kimmage

Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (Harvard University Press). His next book, The Decline of the West: An American Story, is forthcoming from Basic Books.

For some three decades Lionel and Diana Trilling shared a limelight that was not quite identical but never entirely separate.

Roth's new novel takes surprising turns on familiar territory.