Primo Levi

The Famine: artists and the nightmare of our ‘crushed and bleeding soul’

Major exhibition shows how artists and illustrators tried to reflect the horrors of the Great Hunger

White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht review: A sea of troubles

The plight of Korea's 'comfort women' hits home in a thought-provoking debut

The Story of a Brief Marriage review: Till death do us part

Anuk Arudpragasam explores what it means to be alive when war takes away our dignity

The tricky ethics of painting human suffering

Brian Maguire’s paintings try to address the experiences of society’s outsiders

Elie Wiesel: Holocaust survivor whose fame forced the world to remember

Obituary: Writer, activist and Nobel Laureate who had a significant impact on American life

Hiroshima Haiku: Expressing horror in 17 syllables

Hiroshima Day – I believe there must be bones, Under the paved street

The Four Books, by Yan Lianke

Paperback review

Una Mullally: Eddie Holt – one of those passionate teachers who change lives

‘He took the painful Leaving Cert English essay style we had all arrived with and destroyed it’

VE Day: Joy in Europe, but worse horrors of WWII were yet to come

Eileen Battersby: Europe’s streets lined with people too exhausted by six years of grief

In memory of Primo Levi, author and Auschwitz survivor

Eileen Battersby recalls the day she met Primo Levi and assesses his career

Holocaust Memorial Day: 10 books that bear witness

To mark today’s 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, here is a reading list of works that address Nazi Germany’s atrocities and their legacy

Cinema director whose probing films investigated Italian corruption

Francesco Rosi: November 15th, 1922 - January 10th, 2014

Salvatore Giuliano review: a complex portrait of Sicily’s citizens, the Mafia and the government

Martin Amis: ‘How can one claim to be human without looking at what we have done?’

Martin Amis is a deeply moral writer with a Swiftian vigour. In his latest novel, ‘The Zone of Interest’, he returns to the story of the Nazi death camps

In Paradise

Review: A parting masterclass in fiction spins the tale of a gathering of 100 ‘witness bearers’ at a week-long meditative retreat at Auschwitz

The torment of memory and the fear of forgetting

The Brazilian writer Michael Laub’s story of three generations affected by the Holocaust is remarkable for its gifted writing and exceptional translation