Editors and writers on the Books desk — along with colleagues from the newsroom — recommend some time-tested books that offer escape from the present moment. By Elisabeth Egan and Tina Jordan Three ...

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 ...

Throughout the 1990’s I taught Western Civilization at Cooper Union in NYC. Every semester we read Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man). No doubt it is a masterpiece, not only as a ...

The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home ...