Marshall Berman bibliography

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.

Marshall Berman
bibliography

Berman at City College, c.1969
Books↙	6
Articles↙	92
Letters↙	9
Books edited↙	1
Introductions↙	1
Reviews↙	43
References and footnotes

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	978-1844674404
All That Is Solid Melts into Air	1982	978-0140109627
Adventures in Marxism	1999	978-1859843093
On the Town	2006	978-1400063314
Manhattan Picture Worlds	2009	978-3866782440
Modernism in the Streets[a]	2017	978-1784784980

As editor

Title	Publication Year	ISBN
New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg	2007	978-1861893383

Introductions

Title	Publication Year	ISBN
The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)[1][2]	2011	978-0143106265

Essays and articles

• The Truth, The Self and The World: Some Characteristic Problems of Romanticism ^[3] in King's Crown Essays (1961)
• Theory and Practice ^[4] in Partisan Review (1964)
• Alienation, Community, Freedom ^[5] in Dissent (1965)
• The Train of History ^[6] in Partisan Review (1966)
• Abe and Son "Out on Highway 61" ^[7] in The Flame (1969)
• Notes Toward a New Society: Rousseau and the New Left ^[8] in Partisan Review (1971)
• Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the 1960s, and the Tragedy of Development ^[9][10][11] in American Review (1974), The Sixties (1982), and Dissent (2025)
• Buildings Are Judgment ...or "What Man Can Build" ^[12] in Ramparts (1975)
• Buildings Are Judgment II ^[13] in Ramparts (1975)
• Liberal and Totalitarian Therapies in Rousseau: A Response to James M. Glass ^[14] in Political Theory (1976)
• The People in Capital ^[15] in Bennington Review (1978)
• "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air": Marx, Modernism, and Modernization ^[16][17] in Dissent (1978) and Twenty-Five Years of Dissent (1979)
• Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets ^[18] in Partisan Review (1979)
• Herbert Marcuse ^[19] in The Nation (1979)
• Modernity - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ^[20] in Berkshire Review (1981)
• Susan Sontag's God That Failed ^[21] in SoHo Weekly News (1982)
• Feminism, Community, Freedom ^[22] in Dissent (1983)
• A Struggle to the Death in Which Both Sides Are Right ^[23] in the Village Voice (1983)
• The Signs in the Street: A Response to Perry Anderson ^[24] in New Left Review (1984)
• Roots, Ruins, Renewals: City Life After Urbicide ^[25] in the Village Voice (1984)
• Dancing in the Dark ^[26] in the Village Voice (1984)
• Taking Back the Night: City Planning Keeps Times Square's Glitz Alive ^[27] in the Village Voice (1986)
• Take It to the Streets: Conflict and Community in Public Space ^[28] in Dissent (1986)
• The Place of the Poor in Our Cities ^[29] in Utne Reader (1987)
• Ruins and Reforms: New York Yesterday and Today ^[30] in Dissent (1987)
• Among the Ruins ^[31] in New Internationalist (1987)
• The Experience of Modernity ^[32] in Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object (1988)
• Why Modernism Still Matters ^[33][34] in Tikkun (1989) and Modernity and Identity (1992)
• Taking to the Streets ^[35] in Boston Review (1989)
• The Volume of Desperation ^[36] in the Village Voice (1989)
• A Response to Jeffrey C. Isaac ^[37] in Tikkun (1989)
• Eternal City: Two Thousand Years of Street Smarts ^[38] in Voice Literary Supplement (1989)
• Can These Ruins Live? ^[39] in Parkett (1989)
• Where Are the New Moderns? ^[40] in Architectural Design (1990)
• Modernist Anti-Modernism ^[41] in New Perspectives Quarterly (1991)
• Bass in Your Face ^[42] in the Village Voice (1991)
• Roundtable: Nationalism in a World of "Ethnic Cleansing" ^[43] in Tikkun (1992)
• Architecture as a Universal Language ^[44] in Places Journal (1992)
• The Twentieth Century: the Halo and the Highway ^[45] in Modernism/Postmodernism (1992)
• Close to the Edge: Reflections on Rap ^[46] in Tikkun (1993)
• Children of the Future ^[47][48] in Dissent (1993) and Legacy of Dissent (1994)
• Remembering Irving Howe ^[49] in Dissent (1993)
• Keeping the Gates Open ^[50] in Tikkun (1993)
• Postmodernism ^[51] in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (1993)
• "Don't Kidnap Me, I'm a Professor": Looking at Brazil ^[52] in Dissent (1994)
• Signs Square ^[53] in the Village Voice (1995)
• Modernism and Human Rights Near the Millennium ^[54] in Dissent (1995)
• In the Forest of Symbols: Some Notes on Modernism in New York ^[55] in Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times (1995)
• Temas de los tiempos modernos: Marx y el futuro ^[56] in Quehacer (1996)
• Falling Towers: City Life after Urbicide ^[57] in Geography and Identity: Living and Exploring Geopolitics of Identity (1996)
• "A Little Child Shall Lead Them": The Jewish Family Romance ^[58] in The Jew in the Text (1996)
• Picasso Surviving ^[59][60] in Dissent (1997) and etcétera (1997)
• Sign of the Times: The Lure of 42nd Street ^[61] in Dissent (1997)
• Justice/Just Us: Rap and Social Justice in America ^[62] in The Urbanization of Injustice (1997)
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: On the Synthesis of Times Square ^[63] in Harvard Design Magazine (1998)
• Views from the Burning Bridge ^[64][65] in Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s (1999) and Dissent (1999)
• Ten Years After 1989 ^[66] in Dissent (1999)
• Museums in the Age of Giuliani ^[67] in Art in America (1999)
• The Lonely Crowd: New York After the War ^[68] in New York, An Illustrated History (1999)
• Blue Jay Way: Where Will Critical Culture Come From? ^[69] in Dissent (2000)
• It Happens Every Day ^[70] in The Pragmatist Imagination (2000)
• The Labor Movement: Is Anybody Home? ^[71] in Dissent (2001)
• Notes from Underground: Plato's Cave, Piranesi's Prisons, and the Subway ^[72] in Harvard Design Magazine (2001)
• Women and the Metamorphoses of Times Square ^[73] in Dissent (2001)
• Dancing with America: Philip Roth, Writer on the Left ^[74] in New Labor Forum (2001)
• Missing in Action: Death and Life in New York ^[75] in Lingua Franca (2001)
• Too Much Is Not Enough: Metamorphoses of Times Square ^[76] in Impossible Presence (2001)
• Love and Theft: From Jack Robin to Bob Dylan ^[77] in Dissent (2002)
• When Bad Buildings Happen to Good People ^[78] in After the World Trade Center (2002)
• Marshall Berman Responds ^[79] in Dissent (2003)
• The City Rises: Rebuilding Meaning After 9/11 ^[80] in Dissent (2003)
• Standing in the Doorway: Dissent in the 21st Century ^[81] in Dissent (2004)
• Israel: No Souvenirs ^[82] in Dissent (2004)
• Marshall Berman Responds ^[83] in Dissent (2005)
• The Last Page ^[84] in Dissent (2005)
• A Times Square for the New Millennium: Life on the Cleaned-up Boulevard ^[85] in Dissent (2006)
• Marx in China: Modern Art, Modern Conflicts, Modern Workers ^[86] in Dissent (2006)
• Home Fires Burning: Times Square's Signs ^[87] in DESIGNER/builder (2006)
• New York Calling ^[88] in Dissent (2007)
• Guys, Dolls, and Deals: Old and New Times Square ^[89] in The Suburbanization of New York (2007)
• 1968: Lessons Learned ^[90] in Dissent (2008)
• »Ausghen« in der Stadt: Times Square, Potsdamer Platz und moderne Ubranität ^[91] in New York - Berlin (2008)
• Here Comes Everybody ^[92] in The New York 2030 Notebook (2008)
• Gerald Cohen (1941-2009) ^[93] in openDemocracy (2009)
• Falling ^[94] in Restless Cities (2010)
• "Mass Merger": Whitman and Baudelaire, the Modern Street, and Democratic Culture ^[95] in A Political Companion to Walt Whitman (2011)
• In Poland, Followed by Shadows ^[96] in Dissent (2012)
• The Romance of Public Space ^[97] in Beyond Zuccotti Park (2012)
• Emerging from the Ruins^{[b] [98][99]} in Dissent (2014) and Adventures in Modernism (2016)
• New York City: Seeing Through the Ruins^{[b] [100]} in Nonstop Metropolis (2016)

Letters

• Subject Slip-Up ^[101] in The Harvard Crimson (1966)
• Something Beautiful ^[102] in The Village Voice (1967)
• The Divided Self - Mr. Berman replies ^[103] in The New York Times Book Review (1970)
• Erik H. Erikson - Marshall Berman replies ^[104] in The New York Times Book Review (1975)
• The Authentic Rousseau ^[105] in American Political Science Review (1975)
• Lower East 'Sides' - Marshall Berman replies ^[106] in the Village Voice (1983)
• Hope for Labor ^[107] in The New York Review of Books (1996)
• Repression in Cuba ^[108] in The New York Review of Books (2003)
• The US and the Plight of the Iranians ^[109] in The New York Review of Books (2007)

Reviews

Year	Title	Publication	Subject
1959	Politics and Ideology On the American Right[110]	Columbia Daily Spectator	Up from Liberalism, William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959)
1960	Interpreting and Changing: And No Perspective[111]	Columbia Daily Spectator	European Socialism, Carl Landauer (1959)
1961	Sex, Love and the Individual[112]	Columbia Daily Spectator	Wilhelm Reich: Selected Writings, an Introduction to Orgonomy (1960)
1966	"The Lower East Side: Portal to American Life, 1870-1924"[113]	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?[114]	The New York Times Book Review	The Divided Self and Self and Others, R.D. Laing
1972	Weird But Brilliant Light on the Way We Live Now[115]	The New York Times Book Review	Relations in Public, Erving Goffman (1971) ISBN 978-0465068951
1972	A New Edition of a Great Work of Historical Imagination[116]	The New York Times Book Review	To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson (1972) ISBN 978-0374278335
1973	That Is the Land of Lost Content, I See It Shining Plain[117]	The New York Times Book Review	The Country and the City, Raymond Williams (1973) ISBN 978-0195197365
1974	Everybody Who's Nobody and the Nobody Who's Everybody[118]	The New York Times Book Review	Working, Studs Terkel (1974) ISBN 978-0394478845
1975	Erik Erikson: The Man Who Invented Himself[119]	The New York Times Book Review	Life History and the Historical Moment, Erik H. Erikson (1975) ISBN 978-0393011036
1977	Facades at Face Value[120]	The Nation	The Fall of Public Man, Richard Sennett (1977) ISBN 978-0394487151
1978	Family Affairs[121]	The New York Times Book Review	Haven in a Heartless World, Christopher Lasch (1978) ISBN 978-0465028832
1979	Marx: The Dancer and the Dance[122]	The Nation	Marx's Fate, Jerrold Seigel (1978) ISBN 978-0691052595
1980	From Paris to Gdansk[123]	The New York Times Book Review	Fire in the Minds of Men, James H. Billington (1980) ISBN 978-0465024056
1982	Misanthrope's Advice[124]	The New York Times Book Review	The Eighth Night of Creation, Jerome Deshusses (1982) ISBN 978-0888790804
1983	Harvey Pekar, Underground Man[125]	Voice Literary Supplement	American Splendor, Harvey Pekar
1984	"The Bourgois Experience, Victoria to Freud: Volume 1, Education of the Senses"[126]	Vanity Fair	The Bourgeois Experience, Peter Gay (1984) ISBN 978-0195033526
1985	Georg Lukács's Cosmic Chutzpah[127]	Voice Literary Supplement	Record of a Life: An Autobiographical Sketch, György Lukács (1983) ISBN 978-0860910718
1985	La Cité, C'est Moi[128]	The Nation	I, Koch, Arthur Browne, Dan Collins, Michael Goodwin (1984) ISBN 978-0396086475
1986	Scenes from a Marriage[129]	The Village Voice	Knocked Out Loaded, Bob Dylan (1986)
1986	Blowin' Away the Lies[130]	The Village Voice	Live 1975–85, Bruce Springsteen (1986)
1988	Humanism and Terror[131]	The Nation	Zion and State, Mitchell Cohen (1987) ISBN 978-0631152439 and The Yellow Wind, David Grossman (1988) ISBN 978-0224025669
1991	L.A. Raw[132]	The Nation	City of Quartz, Mike Davis (1990) ISBN 978-0860913030
1991	After the Gold Rush: A Nostalgic Retrospect of the Sixties[133]	Dissent	Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)
1992	Hitting the Streets[134]	Los Angeles Times Book Review	Variations on a Theme Park, Michael Sorkin (1990) ISBN 978-0374523145
1992	A View From The Bridge[135]	Culturefront	Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, the Jewish Museum (1992)
1995	Waiting for the Barbarians[136]	The Nation	1920 Diary, Isaac Babel (1990) ISBN 978-0300059663
1995	Kafka Family Values[137]	The Nation	Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient, Sander Gilman (1995) ISBN 978-0415911771
1996	In the Night Kitchen[138]	The Nation	A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin, Alfred Kazin (1996) ISBN 978-0060190378
1996	The Bonds of Love[139]	The Nation	From Bondage, Henry Roth (1996) ISBN 978-0297818458
1996	Meyer Schapiro: The Presence of the Subject[140]	New Politics	Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society, Meyer Schapiro (1994) ISBN 978-0807613566
1997	Angel in the City[141]	The Nation	Walter Benjamin: A Biography, Momme Brodersen (1996) ISBN 978-1859849675, Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings. Volume I: 1913-1926, Walter Benjamin (1996) ISBN 978-0674945852, and Benjamin's Crossing, Jay Parini (1997) ISBN 978-0805031805
1998	Unchained Melody[142][143][144][145]	The Nation	The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1998) ISBN 978-1859848982
1998	The Last Page[146]	Dissent	Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997) ISBN 978-0684842691
2000	Lost in the Arcades[147]	Metropolis	The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin (1999) ISBN 978-0674043268
2000	Crossing Swords: Trees Growing in Brooklyn[148]	Dissent	Crossing Swords (magazine)
2002	Dancing in the Dark[149]	Dissent	Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays 1988-2001, Stuart Klawans (2001) ISBN 978-1560253655
2006	"Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s"[150]	Harvard Design Magazine	Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s, Michael Johns (2003) ISBN 978-0520234352
2006	Tradition... Transgression!: Singer in the Shtetl and on the Street[151]	Moderna Språk	Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004) ISBN 978-1598534559
2007	Bringing Back Moses[152]	The Architect's Newspaper	Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York, Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson eds. (2007) ISBN 978-0393732061
2008	Review: Modernism[153]	Columbia Magazine	Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, Peter Gay (2007) ISBN 978-0393052053
2008	Modernism in the Streets[154]	Dissent	Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, Peter Gay (2007) ISBN 978-0393052053
2009	Orhan Pamuk and Modernist Liberalism[155]	Dissent	Snow, Orhan Pamuk (2005) ISBN 978-0375706868

Notes

1. Edited and published posthumously
2. Published posthumously