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February 23, 2022

Art Spiegelman and the World of “Maus”

The ugly pronouncements of the man behind the graphic novel.

Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust, Maus, recently became the center of controversy when a Tennessee school district removed the book from its curriculum. The first graphic novel to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Maus is widely credited with bringing the Holocaust to the attention of a wider audience, particularly younger readers. Yet Spiegelman himself is less well understood. Saul Jay Singer examines the legacy of both the work and its creator:

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