Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists & Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth & twenty-first centuries & his brilliant nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a masterpiece of the literature on modernism But like many New York intellectuals the essay was his characteristic form accommodating his multifarious interests & expressing his protean searching exuberant mind This collection
Includes:: early essays from & on the radical '60s on New York City on literary figures from Kafka to Pamuk & late essays on rock hip hop & gentrification Concluding with his last essay completed just before his death in 2013 this book is Berman's intellectual autobiography tracing his career as a thinker through the way he read the 'signs in the street'