Primo Levi
Top 10 visionary books about scientists: searching for an answer
From Virginia Woolf to Primo Levi, authors are drawn to capturing scientists’ obsessive quest for knowledge
Martin MacInnes
15, Mar, 2023 @2:18 PM
Edmund de Waal: ‘If I need to forget everything, I read Lee Child. Honestly’
The artist, potter and author on his middle-of-the-night anxiety reading, wanting to be a poet, and the Japanese classic he wishes he had read
Edmund de Waal
23, Apr, 2021 @9:00 AM
Ann Goldstein: 'I try to make it really clear that I am not Elena Ferrante'
The Italian author’s translator on how they work together, New York’s terrifying lockdown, and her favourite novelists
Alex Preston
12, Sep, 2020 @5:00 PM
Top 10 eyewitness accounts of 20th-century history | Charles Emmerson
These stories of a tumultuous era bring to life its intimate passions and accidents as well as its overwhelming scale
Charles Emmerson
27, Nov, 2019 @12:08 PM
Top 10 books about Europe
From Homer to Camus by way of Brecht, French author Laurent Gaudé picks the books that tell us something important about the continent today
Laurent Gaudé
09, Oct, 2019 @2:44 PM
'One must find the strength to resist': Primo Levi's warning to history
The clarity and moral force of If This Is a Man’s witness to nazism’s crimes against humanity is as urgent as ever
Sam Jordison
23, Jul, 2019 @10:01 AM
The Truce: how Primo Levi rediscovered humanity after Auschwitz
Shadows from the horrors told in If This Is a Man remain, but this book shows the author finding joy in ordinary life
Sam Jordison
16, Jul, 2019 @12:10 PM
Primo Levi brings readers as close as prose can to the horror of Auschwitz
If This Is a Man’s vivid, precisely told story keeps us aware of all the individual tragedies occurring amid the mass barbarity of the camps
Sam Jordison
09, Jul, 2019 @12:30 PM
Reading group: we're marking Primo Levi's centenary this month
The Italian author, who would have been 100 on 31 July, provides calm clarity in the face of the Holocaust in If This Is a Man and The Truce
Sam Jordison
02, Jul, 2019 @9:35 AM
Dawkins sees off Darwin in vote for most influential science book
A public poll to mark 30 years of the Royal Society book prizes sees The Selfish Gene declared the most significant – with women authors left on the margins
Claire Armitstead
20, Jul, 2017 @1:04 PM
Primo Levi’s If This is a Man at 70
Ahead of a public reading, Philippe Sands explores the lessons of Levi’s humanity-filled holocaust memoir
Philippe Sands
22, Apr, 2017 @9:59 AM
Jenny Stolzenberg obituary
Other lives: teacher, psychotherapist and widely exhibited ceramicist
Julian Stolzenberg
13, Sep, 2016 @11:56 AM
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