Marshall Berman was an American professor, author, critic, and essayist. Berman wrote three non-fiction books spanning philosophy, literary theory, urbanism, and history, as well as numerous published essays and reviews.

In 1982, Berman published All That Is Solid Melts into Air, which garnered immediate attention. Berman's work regularly appeared in publications such as The Nation, the Village Voice, Dissent, Partisan Review, and The New York Times Book Review.

Books

Title Publication Year ISBN The Politics of Authenticity 1970 All That Is Solid Melts into Air1982 Adventures in Marxism1999 On the Town2006 Manhattan Picture Worlds2009 Modernism in the Streets2017

As editor

Title Publication Year ISBN New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg2007

Introductions

Title Publication Year ISBN The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 2011

Essays and articles

Letters

Subject Slip-Up in The Harvard Crimson (1966) Something Beautiful in The Village Voice (1967) The Divided Self - Mr. Berman replies in The New York Times Book Review (1970) Erik H. Erikson - Marshall Berman replies in The New York Times Book Review (1975) The Authentic Rousseau in American Political Science Review (1975) Lower East 'Sides' - Marshall Berman replies in the Village Voice (1983) Hope for Labor in The New York Review of Books (1996) Repression in Cuba in The New York Review of Books (2003) The US and the Plight of the Iranians in The New York Review of Books (2007)

Short stories

Weathering Heights in Dynamo (1957)

Reviews

Year Title Publication Subject 1959 Politics and Ideology On the American Right Columbia Daily Spectator Up from Liberalism, William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959) 1960 Interpreting and Changing: And No Perspective Columbia Daily Spectator European Socialism, Carl Landauer (1959) 1961 Sex, Love and the Individual Columbia Daily Spectator Wilhelm Reich: Selected Writings, an Introduction to Orgonomy (1960) 1966 "The Lower East Side: Portal to American Life, 1870-1924" Mosaic The Lower East Side: Portal to American Life, 1870-1924, the Jewish Museum (1966) 1970 Must Man Go Mad in Order to Be Sane? The New York Times Book Review The Divided Self and The Self and Others, R.D. Laing 1972 Weird But Brilliant Light on the Way We Live Now The New York Times Book Review Relations in Public, Erving Goffman (1971) 1972 A New Edition of a Great Work of Historical Imagination The New York Times Book Review To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson (1972) 1973 That Is the Land of Lost Content, I See It Shining Plain The New York Times Book Review The Country and the City, Raymond Williams (1973) 1974 Everybody Who's Nobody and the Nobody Who's Everybody The New York Times Book Review Working, Studs Terkel (1974) 1975 Erik Erikson: The Man Who Invented Himself The New York Times Book Review Life History and the Historical Moment, Erik H. Erikson (1975) 1977 Facades at Face Value The Nation The Fall of Public Man, Richard Sennett (1977) 1978 Family Affairs The New York Times Book Review Haven in a Heartless World, Christopher Lasch (1978) 1979 Marx: The Dancer and the Dance The Nation Marx's Fate, Jerrold Seigel (1978) 1980 From Paris to Gdansk The New York Times Book Review Fire in the Minds of Men, James H. Billington (1980) 1982 Misanthrope's Advice The New York Times Book Review The Eighth Night of Creation, Jerome Deshusses (1982) 1983 Harvey Pekar, Underground Man Voice Literary Supplement American Splendor, Harvey Pekar 1984 "The Bourgois Experience, Victoria to Freud: Volume 1, Education of the Senses" Vanity Fair The Bourgeois Experience, Peter Gay (1984) 1985 Georg Lukács's Cosmic Chutzpah Voice Literary Supplement Record of a Life: An Autobiographical Sketch, György Lukács (1983) 1985 La Cité, C'est Moi The Nation I, Koch, Arthur Browne, Dan Collins, Michael Goodwin (1984) 1986 Scenes from a Marriage The Village Voice Knocked Out Loaded, Bob Dylan (1986) 1986 Blowin' Away the Lies The Village Voice Live 1975–85, Bruce Springsteen (1986) 1988 Humanism and Terror The Nation Zion and State, Mitchell Cohen (1987) and The Yellow Wind, David Grossman (1988) 1991 L.A. Raw The Nation City of Quartz, Mike Davis (1990) 1991 After the Gold Rush: A Nostalgic Retrospect of the Sixties Dissent Berkeley in the Sixties (1990) 1992 Hitting the Streets Los Angeles Times Book Review Variations on a Theme Park, Michael Sorkin (1990) 1992 A View From The Bridge Culturefront Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, the Jewish Museum (1992) 1995 Waiting for the Barbarians The Nation 1920 Diary, Isaac Babel (1990) 1995 Kafka Family Values The Nation Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient, Sander Gilman (1995) 1996 In the Night Kitchen The Nation A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin, Alfred Kazin (1996) 1996 The Bonds of Love The Nation From Bondage, Henry Roth (1996) 1996 Meyer Schapiro: The Presence of the Subject New Politics Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society, Meyer Schapiro (1994) 1997 Angel in the City The Nation Walter Benjamin: A Biography, Momme Brodersen (1996) , Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings. Volume I: 1913-1926, Walter Benjamin (1996) , and Benjamin's Crossing, Jay Parini (1997) 1998 Unchained Melody The Nation The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1998) 1998 The Last Page Dissent Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997) 2000 Lost in the Arcades Metropolis The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin (1999) 2000 Crossing Swords: Trees Growing in Brooklyn Dissent Crossing Swords (magazine) 2002 Dancing in the Dark Dissent Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays 1988-2001, Stuart Klawans (2001) 2006 "Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s" Harvard Design Magazine Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s, Michael Johns (2003) 2006 Tradition... Transgression!: Singer in the Shtetl and on the Street Moderna Språk Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004) 2007 Bringing Back Moses The Architect's Newspaper Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York, Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson eds. (2007) 2008 Review: Modernism Columbia Magazine Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, Peter Gay (2007) 2008 Modernism in the Streets Dissent Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, Peter Gay (2007) 2009 Orhan Pamuk and Modernist Liberalism Dissent Snow, Orhan Pamuk (2005)

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