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...boxing that's dead, has been since Primo Carnera retired. It's a sham and a shuck, lacking the je ne sais quoi of monster-truck racing and the visual appeal of a carton of eggs falling off the kitchen counter. Nobody cares except a couple dozen middle-aged sports editors. If those guys would unplug the publicity tubes...
These days he has little time for a primo passion: painting. "A guy told me that in order to get one hour of good painting done, you need four hours of uninterrupted time." He describes a recent favorite, Oww, God, Mom, the Dog He Bited Me: "There's a clump of Band-Aids in the bottom corner. A dark background. A stick figure whose head is a blur of blood. Then a very small dog, made out of glue. There is a house, a little black bump. It is pretty crude, pretty primitive and minimal. I like...
...Primo Levi...
Well, now you know, because these were among the more than 350,000 thoughts floating around inside the head of the late Primo Levi, and a good number of them have been crystallized in this engaging posthumous collection of essays. For most of his life Levi was known mainly for having written one of the very best Holocaust memoirs, a thoughtful and kindhearted account titled Survival in Auschwitz. At the end of his life, in 1987, Levi was in the headlines again, for having leaped down the stairwell of the apartment house where he had lived since birth. Whether this...
...Russia House mixes spying and glasnost, commanding suspense and a treatise on our times. -- Primo Levi's essays distill a mind of rare quality...