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DVD: HomeVideo Review: The Tin Drum 

Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum was published in 1959, and for the following two decades it hovered near the top of any sane person’s list of unadaptable novels. Its protagonist, Oskar Matzerath, deliberately stops growing at the age of 3,...Show More Summary

Pete Danko: Berlin Book of Lists Excerpt: Top Five Novels Set in Berlin to Read While You're in Town

"The dry Berlin wit sparing no one," writes Gunter Grass in The Tin Drum, and count that as a pop quiz: If you know, you know. If you've been on the other end of that dry Berlin wit sparing no one, you won't forget it.

Re ‘Nobel Laureate Steyn . . .’

Now that Mark has won the Nobel Peace Prize, given his connection to the EU, what about the literature prize? Here’s my pitch: Funnier than Dario Fo; more honest than Günter Grass; more coherent than Harold Pinter; as musical as Seamus...Show More Summary

From Germany to Germany reviews

The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Günter Grass' Diary 1990, From Germany to Germany, now available in English.

Grass attacks ‘unchecked nuclear power’ Israel

Nobel prize-winning German author Gunter Grass on Sunday launched another broadside at Israel, saying it was “an unchecked nuclear power” and an “occupying force.” Speaking on German radio station NDR, the author, already declared persona non grata in Israel over a poem saying it threatened world peace, said: “Israel is an unchecked nuclear power.” “Several [...]

Michael Henry Heim, UCLA scholar and translator, dies at 69

Michael Henry Heim, a well regarded scholar of Slavic languages at UCLA known for his translations of works by Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Thomas Mann and Anton Chekhov, has died. He was 69. Heim died Saturday at his home in...

Gunter Grass Offends Israel via Verse Again

From The Globe and Mail: Nobel prize-winning German author Gunter Grass, declared persona non-grata by Israel over a poem saying it threatened world peace, has published another work critical of the Jewish state. In one of a collection of 87 new pieces, Mr. Grass hails whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu, who served 18 years in jail for [...]

Günter Grass goes after Israel again

Günter Grass has waded into foreign policy once more. Having attacked Israel earlier this year in a poem ("What Must Be Said") that unambiguously branded the Jewish state an aggressor willing to use nuclear weapons against Iran, Grass renews that criticism in a new poem called "A Hero in Our...

Gunter Grass hails Israeli nuclear whistleblower in new poem

The Grass snake is on the loose again

Make no mistake: Gunter Grass is one of the of the most important novelists of the 20th centruy, one who did more than any other to normalise the German self-image after the Second World War and to make German literature respectable once more on the world page. But we’re in the 21st century now and [...]

Q and A with Günter Grass biographer

At Deutsche Welle Jochen Kürten has a Q & A with Günter Grass biographer and publisher Volker Neuhaus, What drives Günter Grass ? (a question surely better put to Grass himself). Still, lots of fun discussion of the recent Grass-poems......

Gunter Grass, the Waffen SS, and the dangers of reading history backwards

History is lived forwards but read backwards. We all know this, but often find it easy or convenient to forget. Criticism of Gunter Grass’s poem about Israel makes the point. There were good reasons to criticise the poem’s argument – that Israel as a nuclear power is the chief danger to peace in the Middle [...]

Why Germany is Going to Republish Hitler's Mein Kampf

Jacob Heilbrunn It was widely noted during the contretemps over the novelist Gunter Grass' recent effusions about Israel being a threat to world peace that a divide emerged in Germany. On the one side were the intellectual and political elites who condemned his comments. Show More Summary

The green green Grass of Tony Lerman

As part of a more general discussion about what he perceives to be a tendency in some quarters to inflate the current danger of anti-Semitism, Antony Lerman raises the question whether or not Günter Grass's recent poem, 'What must b...

From Sderot, an Open Letter to Gunter Grass

There is much for you to learn here.

‘Grass shattered the narrative’ — Refaat Alareer

Gunter Grass's great transgression was to show that Israel is endangering world peace

Dave Eggers Will Not Attend Gunter Grass Foundation Award Ceremony

Author Dave Eggers has declined an invitation from the Gunter Grass Foundation to attend an awards ceremony honoring his novel 'Zeitoun,' citing Grass' recent controversial poem. News by John Jarzemsky Via JTA.org Author Dave EggersShow More Summary

In the News: Rejected Prizes, Rejected Authors

Dave Eggers refuses to accept the Günter Grass award in person due to the recent controversy over Grass’s poem about Israel. “This was the year we all lost.” Ann Patchett on the missing 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Winston Churchill’s...Show More Summary

Understanding Gunter Grass In His Continental Context

D.G. Myers:"(P)eople can get away with anti-Semitism these days only by passing it off as…

Robert Lowell scooped Gunter Grass

The late American poet Robert Lowell said he was scared to death by the wave of New York Jewish nationalism accompanying the 1967 War