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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Fulford: Elie Wiesel suggested where the blame should be placed: "Primo Levi died at Auschwitz forty years later." But Levi, if he could reply, might say Wiesel had it backwards You can save ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Levi’s extraordinary memoirs tell the real story of the Holocaust. One hundred years after the author’s birth, Thomas Graham celebrates his genius and humanity. “Distilling is beautiful. First of all, ...

Editors and writers on the Books desk — along with colleagues from the newsroom — recommend some time-tested books that offer escape from the present moment. By Elisabeth Egan and Tina Jordan Three ...