
Benjamin's Parasite
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At any given moment, the human body contains millions of parasites. This is the story of just one. A...

Scapegoat
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Pathetic, contrite and hapless, Benjamin is nonetheless the scapegoat at The Store: there is nothing...

The Arcades Project
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"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments...

Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
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Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its...

The Paris Mistress
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Summer 1781. Passy, France. George Washington's two least likely spies for liberty, Rebecca Parcell...

Benjamin's Passages: Dreaming, Awakening
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In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter...

When I Was a Photographer
Felix Nadar, Eduardo Cadava and Liana Theodoratou
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Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer -- and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and...

Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition
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In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the...

Crossings
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Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed to...
HIstorical Fiction fiction

Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
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Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city...