If you were around during the 1972 German political campaign, you might recall the standoff between the SPD's Willy Brandt and Rainer Barzel of the CDU. The campaign slogan that year was "Buerger fuer ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Gunter Grass has always liked the pulpit. For more than 40 years, the ...

The Tin Drum, his masterpiece, was his only good novel. The rest of the time the late German Nobelist could hardly stop lecturing us long enough to tell a story. There is a rough schematic one should ...

Günther Grass photographed by Jill Krementz at PEN International Conference in New York City on January 16, 1986. He later signed the print for Krementz when he appeared on June 27, 2007 with Norman ...

The list is a long one: of those literary and intellectual dreadnoughts with sketchy personal histories and lifetimes of bad decisions. Not all are equally heinous—Mailer’s drunken wounding of his ...

Germany’s Nobel-winning author, Gunter Grass, who acted as a moral compass for many in the postwar nation but later provoked criticism over his own World War II past, died Monday aged 87, his ...

With his controversial poem on Israel and Iran, Günter Grass has irritated, provoked and outraged people everywhere. As Germany’s greatest living writer and a Nobel laureate in literature, he has also ...

Poet Günter Grass has responded to harsh criticism of his recent work that accuses Israel of threatening world peace, saying that although the media has piled up on him, he will not back down from the ...

The world has lost, in the space of 24 hours, two literary giants – German novelist and artist Gunter Grass, and Uruguayan author and poet Eduardo Galeano. It has also lost two men whose love of ...

On Wednesday, the 84-year-old writer and Nobel literature prizewinner Günter Grass published a poem in which he sharply criticized Israel for its hostile stance towards Iran. His poem, entitled “What ...