Benjamin's Crossing is a 1996 historical novel written by Jay Parini about the Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, and his escape over the Pyrenees from Nazi occupied France into Spain.

[1] Benjamin's Crossing received positive reviews.

The New York Times wrote "Parini's story is at once painstakingly researched and dramatically recounted.

It locates Benjamin's mystifying traits in a vivid and believable psychology.

And it has something important to tell us, not just about Benjamin but about the role of the intellectual in modern Western society."