Arts & Letters
‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’ reveals the Holocaust memoirist’s extraordinary breadth
“As you know, meat was scarce, and my wife thought it a shame to throw all the test animals into the incinerator. So every once in a while we would have a taste of one or another: several guinea pigs, a few rabbits; dogs and monkeys no, never.”
The setting for Primo Levi’s story ‘Versamine’ (1965) is a
Catherine the Great still reigns in the NGV’s ‘Masterpieces from the Hermitage’
Emma Kowal’s ‘Trapped in the Gap’ examines the ‘White anti-racist’ in indigenous Australia
Trans. Donald Barry and Stephen Muecke; Reaktion Books; $40
An on-drive to the boundary the ball
going on and on through dust and dirt
on and on past the shed all the way past
the chook pen and on bouncing over
bark flaked and fallen from wandoos
and on over dried twigs and branches
and chunks of quartz – rose, milky –
on and on under the loosely strung fence
on and on
Musicians on film in Asif Kapadia’s ‘Amy’, Bill Pohlad’s ‘Love & Mercy’ and Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘Eden’