When production shots of Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme first graced the internet, one wag, taking note of the glasses, ...

In New York City, museumgoing can be a kind of wandering. The sheer bulk of work, old and new, quickly deflates any idea of “taking it all in”—witness tourists at the Met studiously snapping iPad ...

""Perhaps the mingling of the forgotten with the dust of our vanished dwellings is the secret of its survival,"" writes Benjamin in his beautiful book about the small ...

In 1913, the young Walter Benjamin struck up an intense friendship with the poet Christoph Friedrich Heinle. As Benjamin’s biographers Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings remark, “Benjamin’s ...

Walter Benjamin’s life, to use the kind of metaphor he was so fond of, was not unlike the Parisian arcades, those covered retail passages that he loved so much. He was born into a world with the finer ...

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), a German-Jewish philosopher and cultural critic, left an indelible mark on literary and critical theory with his insights into art, technology, and history.

The appearance of this volume marks the completion of a grand project, bringing a fully representative set of texts by German critic Benjamin (1892–1940) into English; volume 4 joins the first three ...

I found German writer Walter Benjamin through my middle-school history teacher. He was my first adult crush, barely 21 and a graduate student with long hair pulled back in a ponytail and wire-rim ...

“Fame comes in many sorts and sizes, from the one-week notoriety of the cover story to the splendor of an everlasting name.” When Hannah Arendt wrote this sentence 46 years ago in the pages of The New ...

Ferris, David. "'Truth is the Death of Intention': Benjamin's Esoteric Concept of Romanticism." Studies in Romanticism 31, (Winter, 1992). Gasche, Rodolphe. "The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the ...

A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.