Maus Now: Selected Writing

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, a highly influential contemporary artist, shaped postwar American culture through his work Maus. Maus has enriched literature, history, and art, inspiring collective expression. Despite its timelessness, Maus has often been at the center of debates, as evidenced by its recent ban from a Tennessee school board.

Writers from various viewpoints and traditions explore Maus’s complexity across four decades. Organized into three sections—“Contexts,” “Problems of Representation,” and “Legacy”—the book includes translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus. American literary scholar Hillary Chute, an expert on comics and graphic narratives, assembles the world’s best writing on this classic work of graphic testimony in this revelatory and generative collection.

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