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 ...

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 ...

Readers of Primo Levi`s recent autobiographical work, ”The Periodic Table,” know that as a chemist and survivor of a Nazi death camp, he brings to his writing a perception and feeling that are unusual ...

The ‘best science book’, according to the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 2006. As an A level student studying both English literature and Chemistry, I love to see the worlds of art and science ...

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

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Momentous is a strong word, yet not so strong as carbon, the sixth element in the ...

The great Italian writer Primo Levi is primarily known in this country for memoirs detailing his experiences in Auschwitz, his long journey home after the end of the war and his life as a chemist of ...

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 ...