“IT'S a disgusting poem,” said Marcel Reich-Ranicki, one of the most influential German critics. He was speaking of "What Must Be Said", a poem by Günter Grass denouncing Israel's nuclear programme, ...

FRANKFURT (AFP) – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany's leading literary critic and Holocaust survivor, has died aged 93, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, of which he was book editor for many ...

NEW YORK — Marcel Reich-Ranicki, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who fled Poland to become a powerful cultural figure in postwar Germany as a distinguished literary critic and a popular television ...

Born: June 2, 1920; Died: September 18, 2013. Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who has died aged 93, was an influential literary critic for more than 50 years. The composer Jean Sibelius once said "Whoever put ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany’s best-known literary critic and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, died on Wednesday aged 93, his publisher said. Reich-Ranicki, a Jew born in Poland in 1920, almost ...

This story narrates the quintessential life of a Central European Jewish intellectual tossed by the storms of the twentieth century -- often pursued by survivor guilt but driven by an overwhelming ...

This is the first part of a two-part tribute to the late Polish-born, German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who died September 18, 2013. “Thinkers are valued in this country especially when ...