- Paris Old and New, 1935
- Brecht’s Threepenny Novel
- Johann Jakob Bachofen
- Conversation above the Corso: Recollections of Carnival-Time in Nice
- Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century
- Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on the Essay “Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century”
- Problems in the Sociology of Language: An Overview
- The Formula in Which the Dialectical Structure of Film Finds Expression
- Rastelli’s Story
- Art in a Technological Age, 1936
- The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version
- A Different Utopian Will
- The Significance of Beautiful Semblance
- The Signatures of the Age
- Theory of Distraction
- The Storyteller: Observations on the Works of Nikolai Leskov
- German Men and Women: A Sequence of Letters
- Letter from Paris (2): Painting and Photography
- Translation—For and Against
- The Knowledge That the First Material on Which the Mimetic Faculty Tested Itself
- Dialectics and History, 1937
- Addendum to the Brecht Commentary: The Threepenny Opera
- Eduard Fuchs, Collector and Historian
- Fruits of Exile, 1938 (Part 1)
- Theological–Political Fragment
- A German Institute for Independent Research
- Review of Brod’s Franz Kafka
- Letter to Gershom Scholem on Franz Kafka
- The Land Where the Proletariat May Not Be Mentioned: The Premiere of Eight One-Act Plays by Brecht
- Diary Entries, 1938
- Berlin Childhood around 1900
- A Note on the Texts
- Chronology, 1935–1938
- Index
- Illustrations:
- The Galerie Vivienne, Paris, 1907
- Walter Benjamin at the Bibliothèque Nationale, 1937
- Honoré Daumier, La Crinoline en temps de neige
- The Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge, Berlin, early twentieth century
- The Victory Column on Königsplatz, Berlin, early twentieth century
- The goldfish pond in the Tiergarten, Berlin, early twentieth century
- Berlin’s Tiergarten in winter, early twentieth century
- Market hall on Magdeburger Platz, 1899
- Interior of a typical middle-class German home, late nineteenth century
- Courtyard on Fischerstrasse in Old Berlin, early twentieth century
- Walter Benjamin and his brother Georg, ca. 1902