The week in theatre: Pass Over; Love, Loss & Chianti and more – review
Antoinette Nwandu’s 2017 play about the US race divide flits thrillingly from laughter to rage
February 2020
'It's about German guilt': Why The Tin Drum still divides audiences
The stage version of Günter Grass’s 1959 novel is set to open in London – with its ‘unbearable’ protagonist and tales of Nazi collaboration, it’s as controversial as ever
December 2019
Books that made me
Thomas Keneally: ‘Does anyone write a good book at 83? Well, I think I have’
The Australian novelist on crying over a Dickens biography, laughing at Kathy Lette and the classic he is ashamed not to have read
August 2019
Books that made me
Chigozie Obioma: ‘I would rush to the library in my lunch break to read the Odyssey’
The Booker prize nominated novelist on the King James Bible and finding comfort in books about birds
March 2018
Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed?
Harper Lee never wanted Go Set a Watchman brought out, Sylvia Plath’s diary was burned by Ted Hughes – the controversial world of literary legacies
October 2017
The Tin Drum review – Kneehigh turn Grass's fable into chaotic cabaret
The company’s surreal and gleefully inventive adaptation transforms the Günter Grass novel into a riot of theatre, puppetry and music
September 2017
'The church of the lost cause': inside Kneehigh's wild Cornish home
To create The Tin Drum, the theatre company spent two weeks tucked away in a cluttered rural retreat where they eat, run and rehearse together – just don’t call it a commune, says artistic director Mike Shepherd
November 2016
Still here: reflections on later life
Break the taboo and talk about death – it will make you feel better
Michele Hanson
Günter Grass: ‘When the time comes, we will rest on leaves’
October 2015
From the Guardian archive
From the archive, 13 October 1978: Günter Grass on his new book The Flounder
The Guardian, 13 Oct 1978: Alex Hamilton talks to the versatile German author about his bestselling book on European history and the culture of cookery
August 2015
Günter Grass criticises refugee treatment from beyond the grave
Posthumous publication of Nobel prize-winning writer’s last book attacks rising vitriol towards refugees in Germany
Truth-teller, controversialist, affectionate friend – above all, ingenious and inspirational novelist … Orhan Pamuk, John Irving and other writers salute Günter Grass, who died this week
Writers demand greater protection for refugees in Europe
More than 1,100 authors sign a petition to the European parliament, calling on EU countries to create common, humane laws of asylum
Günter Grass: final interview reveals author's fears of another world war
Nobel winner told El País that he feared humanity was ‘sleepwalking’ towards a major conflict with flashpoints in Ukraine and the Middle East
Günter Grass personified Germany’s difficult relationship with its Nazi past
Hans Kundnani
The great moralist turned out to have both dark secrets and disturbing blind spots: his life and views illustrate the deep flaws in Germany’s reckoning with its history
