Grass says literary reputation hurt by SS admission
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Nobel laureate Guenter Grass said on  Tuesday his literary achievements were being denigrated  following his belated admission that he had served in the  Waffen SS during World War Two.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Rule No. 1: Do Not Mention The Dreaded S-Word. The mentor does not like it.
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One of the world's most lauded - and most divisive - literary grandees is awarded a knighthood for services to literature.
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County officials want to question author Norma Khouri over allegations she bilked a woman out of her home and &#36;400,000 in savings bonds when she lived in Chicago in the 1990s.
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Nobel prize winning German novelist   Guenter Grass said on Monday he was still on his feet despite   weeks of sharp criticism for his half century of silence about   his time in Hitler's Waffen-SS.
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Eliot Weinberger, a previous finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, set off a stir by saying that one of this year's nominees, Bruce Bawer, had engaged in âracism as criticism.â
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Although she is afforded celebrity  status by many Americans, some analysts say U.S. Secretary of  State Condoleezza Rice's image may be tarnished by reports that  she brushed off warnings of the September 11 attacks.
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Nobel prize winning German novelist  Guenter Grass said on Monday he was still on his feet despite  weeks of sharp criticism for his half century of silence about  his time in Hitler's Waffen-SS.
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Robert Lanza, the embattled author of a controversial stem-cell paper says his testimony before a senate subcommittee hearing Wednesday recalled McCarthy-era "lynching." In Bodyhack.
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The contentious debate over paid admission at t
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A previously unknown story and a letter ascribed to Ernest Hemingway have caused a dispute between those who want to see them published and those who don't.
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German author and Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass has urged this year's prize winner, reclusive Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, to travel to Sweden to pick up her award.
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BERLIN, Aug 17 (IPS) - Nobel Prize winner Guenter Grass's admission  that he served in the Waffen SS, Hitler's  notorious elite  army, has triggered an outpouring of shock, rage and disbelief in  Germany.
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A new book by Jimmy Carter in which he  compares Israel's treatment of Palestinians to South Africa's  Apartheid system has sparked a bitter debate over the former  U.S. president's reputation as a peacemaker.
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Joyce Hattoâs reputation for excellence and originality has been shaken by a charge of plagiarism.
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Varsity Letter this week revisits three recent columns. Mike Grasso, a retired U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector, was concerned about what he thought were unclear tryout criteria for Fairfax County high school teams and possible conflicts of interest involving high school coaches who also......
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The latest Nobel Prize laureate for literature is a self-described advocate for the weak, whose own &quot;social phobia&quot; will keep her from attending the awards ceremony in Stockholm.