This week marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Primo Levi, an Italian writer whose accounts of the death camp at Auschwitz are among the most admired examples of Holocaust literature. A new ...

""No human experience is without meaning or unworthy of analysis,'' writes Levinot even the ``gigantic biological and social experiment that was Auschwitz.'' And few ...

Levi's experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans' capacity for extreme violence. In September 1943, Primo Levi took to the mountains in northwest Italy to escape ...

A few years ago, my husband gave me The Complete Works of Primo Levi as a gift. Last winter, I decided that 2025 would be the year I finally read through them. I was due to give birth to our first ...

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What would Primo Levi say? In 2011, Nina Martyris, writing on the website of the Arab Studies Institute, examined the extrajudicial executions of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki, and Muammar ...

Manuela Paul had the precious documents in a plastic folder, inside an artist’s satchel, inside a Whole Foods shopping bag, which she kept at her side the entire bus ride from New York to Washington.

I feel conflicted about writing a review of Antony Sher’s embodiment of the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi in Primo, although I feel conflicted about writing a review of Antony Sher’s embodiment of the ...

The great Italian writer Primo Levi is primarily known in this country for memoirs detailing his experiences in Auschwitz, his long journey home after the end of the war and his life as a chemist of ...

With the exception of some months working as a chemist in Milan at the beginning of the war and the year in which he survived Auschwitz, Primo Levi lived in the same apartment in Turin for all of his ...

When Primo Levi was liberated from Auschwitz in January 1945, he wanted to return immediately to his birthplace in Turin, Italy. That journey of a thousand miles ended up taking 10 months as Levi ...