Colin Marshall's Books on Cities

The Lives (and Deaths) of Berlin

Ian Buruma's Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 (2026) and Peter Schneider's Berlin Now: The City After the Wall (2014)

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What else I've been reading in April 2026

Plus, the Seoul-loving Chris Arnade interviews me about life in Korea

May 1 • Colin Marshall

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March 2026

What else I've been reading in March 2026

Early Emmanuel Carrère, Korean Confucianism, theories of justice, and more

Mar 31 • Colin Marshall

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Bruce Bégout, Los Angeles, capitale du XXe siècle (2019)

Can the European mind comprehend Southern California's vast "non-entité urbanoïde"?

Mar 22 • Colin Marshall

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What else I've been reading (and writing) in February 2026

Late Hitchens, the philosophy of science, and my own piece on David Bowie

Mar 1 • Colin Marshall

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January 2026

What else I've been reading in January 2026

Charles Dickens, Jacques Pépin's memoir, examinations of the American empire, and more

Jan 31 • Colin Marshall

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Benjamin Schneider, The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution (2025)

What retarded American cities (in the literal sense), and how to set their development right

Jan 1 • Colin Marshall

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November 2025

Sergio Chejfec, Mis dos mundos (2008)

A novella of the promise and disappointment of walking an unknown city

Nov 9, 2025 • Colin Marshall

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September 2025

Fifth anniversary sale: one year for $30

A special deal for urban-minded readers everywhere

Sep 20, 2025 • Colin Marshall

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Edmund White, The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (2001)

What the late examiner of American gay life learned from his expat years

Sep 10, 2025 • Colin Marshall

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July 2025

A. J. Liebling, Chicago: The Second City (1952)

When a New Yorker correspondent profiled the postwar "not-quite-metropolis," not every Chicagoan was pleased

Jul 21, 2025 • Colin Marshall

Ferdinand Addis, The Eternal City: A History of Rome (2018)

22 dramatic chapters in the life of a city, and a civilization, you may already be thinking about every day

Jul 6, 2025 • Colin Marshall

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