Friday quiz: among the moderns | Michael Tomasky

If you asked me to list my top five or ten books, a high and prominent place would be taken by All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman. It's a study of modernism that ranges from Goethe to Marx to the architecture of St. Petersburg to Baudelaire and a hundred other things serving Berman's thesis of "the state of perpetual becoming" of the modern world. I should re-read it and see if I still love it as much, but at the time (19...90?) it made me drunk with excitement. Buy it at...