Translating Kafka could be deeply affecting. Primo Levi once described emerging from the task “as if from an illness.” ...

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The author and musician talks about nearly joining a cult and the ‘jackassery’ involved with being a house painter.

One of the British stars of the Tony-nominated show “Giant” is battling antisemitism in art and in life — and he has a dire ...

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Marketed as the Booker winner’s last work, the author examines the nature of life and memory in this five-part novel ...

Elise and Otto Hampel were an unremarkable working-class couple living in Berlin in 1940. With little formal education, Elise ...

If you are like me, when you visit someone’s home for the first time you look at the bookshelves to see what the selection of books can tell you about your host. Primo Levi had ‘a habit of placing ...

When news came of Primo Levi's sudden death at the age of sixty-seven, there were many people who refused to accept that he might have killed himself. Levi had slipped, they said, and fallen over ...