The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world’s foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied as ethics, memory…

Now in paperback comes a collection of little-known personal and revealing interviews with one of the most important and gifted writers of our time (Italo Calvino).

In 1987, Primo Levi took part in this remarkable series of conversations. He discusses his childhood, his education under Fascism, his friendships, and recounts his wartime experience as a partisan…

This work explores the philosophy of Primo Levi. It sheds light on the writer’s rational, de-mythologizing approach to suffering and survival. It shows that Levi grappled with the ambiguities and…

Scholar, writer, and poet Cheryl Chaffin travels to Poland to contemplate the ethical implications of Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi’s deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, and to reflect on the…

This book presents a baker’s dozen of interpretative keys to Levi’s output and thought. It deepens our understanding of common themes in Levi studies (memory and witness) while exploring unusual…

In Arduous Tasks, Lina N. Insana demonstrates how translation functions as a metaphor for the transmission of Holocaust testimony and broadens the parameters of survivor testimony.

A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century’s most enduring writers.