Were the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded posthumously, Primo Levi (1919- 1987) would surely have won it by now. If Levi's own writings alone did not make the case, Carole Angier's overpowering ...

Primo Levi is a special case. He is not simply a great 20th-century writer, like Proust or Joyce or Eliot, who have all been deeply and repeatedly explored. Levi was an Italian Jew, born in Turin in ...

Publishing can be a brutal game of chance. When, in 1947, Primo Levi had finished If This Is a Man , he found only rejection slips and disillusion. Then at last the house of Antonicelli took him up.

ONE of the momentous encounters of post-World War II literary giants was that between Philip Roth and Primo Levi in 1986. The meetings took place in and around the northern Italian city of Turin, Levi ...

As a promising student in 1940, Primo Levi, the Italian chemist, writer and Auschwitz survivor, struggled to persuade professors in Turin to take him on as a doctoral candidate. But now it seems that ...

In this profound work, poet Webster (Wail Song) traces his genealogy like a thread through a labyrinthine racial history of America. Webster positions himself as “the grandchild Continue reading » ...