Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For me, a former chemist, about to edit a poetry magazine, Poetry Review, the timing was perfect. The Periodic Table is an ...

""No human experience is without meaning or unworthy of analysis,'' writes Levinot even the ``gigantic biological and social experiment that was Auschwitz.'' And few ...

In January 1985, a laudatory New York Review of Books review of Primo Levi’s “The Periodic Table” sent me straight to my local bookstore for a copy, which I devoured in one or two sittings. I’d never ...

Proof, if it were needed, that Primo Levi was not just a valuable Holocaust memoirist but a great 20th-century writer came last year in the magisterial form of his Complete Works—three slipcased ...

It’s 150 years since the development of the periodic table – the inspiration for chemist and concentration camp survivor Primo Levi to write one of the great testaments to the human spirit It’s 150 ...

Janet Suzman introduces a major new dramatisation of Primo Levi's stories about our human relationship with the chemical elements that make up our universe – a book the Royal Institution of Great ...

In 1985, Primo Levi was known in Britain and America for a single book, If This is a Man, his memoir of survival in Auschwitz. Then came The Periodic Table, which arrived in this country garlanded ...