Books
----- Berlin Childhood Around 1900 Walter Benjamin Harvard University Press: 186 pp., $14.95 paper NOW is the time to read Walter Benjamin, when doors to the future are slamming shut around us and freedom dribbles out of a modern life that is squeezed by masses of information delivered at high speeds and by a rigid morality that circumscribes behavior, movement and thought.
April 16, 2006
Entertainment & Arts
Barbara Walters, a.k.a. Benjamin Button, has chicken pox
Jan. 28, 2013
THE ARCADES PROJECT By Walter Benjamin; The Belknap Press / Harvard University Press: 1,074 pp., $39.95 : THE COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE 1928-1940 By Walter Benjamin and T.W. Adorno; Harvard University Press: 384 pp., $39.95
May 14, 2000
WALTER BENJAMIN, AT THE DAIRY QUEEN, Reflections at Sixty and Beyond; by Larry McMurtry; : Simon & Schuster $21, 208 pages
Nov. 30, 1999
Looking for Lore at a Small-Town Hangout
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June 8, 2017
Movies
On Location: Visual effects supervisor Guillaume Rocheron explains how ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,’ starring Ben Stiller, achieved a look that was dazzling yet rooted in reality.
Nov. 21, 2013
Awards
‘Walter Mitty’s’ visual effects chief shares screen secrets
Walter Benjamin was a luminary of 20th-Century literary thought; a dull notion, unless it is understood that the light came from 800 or 900 glowworms collected in his paper hat.
Nov. 9, 1986
World & Nation
Vernon A.
Sept. 24, 1985