** Kimmage, Michael. "Even in a simple color scheme, there is no red without blue and no blue without red," (2009) [http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/michael_kimmage_interview_trilling_chambers_anti-communism_conservative_tur/ online interview]
** Kimmage, Michael. "Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey and the Complicated Origins of the Neo-Conservative Movement," ''Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies,'' Volume 21, Number 3, Spring 2003, pp. 48–63 in [[Project MUSE]]
* Rodden, John. "The Opposing Selves of Lionel Trilling," ''Modern Age'' 1996 38(2): 164-174164–174. , by a conservative scholar [http://www.mmisi.org/ma/38_02/rodden.pdf online edition]
* Rodden, John, ed. ''Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves'' (1999) 490pp [http://www.questia.com/read/113510346?title=Lionel%20Trilling%20and%20the%20Critics%3a%20%20Opposing%20Selves online edition], reviews of Trilling's books by numerous scholars and writers