Yizhar Smilansky
Obituary: Controversial Israeli novelist who made his countrymen face up to the issue of exile.
The denial of true reflection
John Berger: Günter Grass's idea of honour is beyond our modern moralists. He has lived through his mistakes better than most of us would have done.
The secret persuaders
It was 1940, the Nazis were in the ascendant, the Blitz at its deadliest, and Britain's last hope was to bring a reluctant United States into the war. So it was that the largest covert operation in UK history was launched. William Boyd sheds light on a forgotten spy ring.
Günter Grass is my hero, as a writer and a moral compass
John Irving: The obnoxious bitching about his enlistment in the Waffen SS shows how poorly critics grasp the psyche of writing.
Bush takes Camus to the beach
John Mullan: Every summer, George W Bush's holiday reading is announced. This year Bush mockers have been given pause
Storm grows over Grass’s belated SS confessions
· Silence negates author's words, says Jewish council
· Writer surprised amid calls to return Nobel prize
Jiang Zemin books a place in history
With critics under the cosh, the former Chinese president's Selected Works look set to top the country's best-seller list.
Walesa calls on ‘shamed’ Grass to give up honour
The Nobel peace laureate Lech Walesa wants the German novelist Günter Grass to give up his honorary citizenship of the Polish city of Gdansk after admitting he served in the Waffen-SS.
What novelists reveal about the minds of murderers
Jason Cowley: Authors are ideally placed to give us a true view of terrorism.
Grass admits serving with Waffen-SS
Günter Grass, the Nobel prize-winning German author, has admitted that he was in the Waffen SS in the second world war.
‘I don’t write to titillate. I censor like crazy to make my blogs less erotic’
Her anonymous sex blog was a runaway success; the book of the blog is a bestseller. But last weekend the true identity of author ‘Abby Lee’ was revealed - and her life was turned upside down. In her first interview, Zoe Margolis talks to Zoe Williams about porn, feminism and breaking the news of her secret writing career to her parents.