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- MM McCabeInterview
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi is the most stunning account of what passed for life in Auschwitz. It has a deep and terrifying moral challenge — do any of our moral emotions survive that kind of dehumanising cruelty? I think that it is essential reading for everyone, especially as some of the lessons of the last…
- Brad EvansInterview
If This is A Man by Primo Levi. This is so much more than a book. It’s a testimony to the worst of the human condition. It profoundly altered how I understood the relationship between history and its claims to civilisation and human progress. And it also placed certain ethical and political demands upon me as a…
- Simon MajumdarInterview
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