Critiquing the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that served as early malls--the author, who wrote the work in the 1920s and 1930s, covers thirty ...

Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century is ...

Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English ...

Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written--a "truly exceptional book about hashish ...

Recounts Benjamin's experiences and observations while visiting Moscow and depicts his efforts to learn about Soviet society

Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht--both independently minded Marxists with a deep understanding of and passionate commitment to the ...

The Origin of German Tragic Drama is generally acknowledged as Benjamin's most sustained and original work and as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth ...

Reflections, the exceptional new scrapbooking how-to volume from industry innovator Jeanette R. Lynton, is dedicated to helping scrapbooking enthusiasts make the most of their ...