A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics authors and academics reflect on
the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece
Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street
Journal___________________________________________________________________________It is hard to
overstate Art Spiegelman's effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning
author is one of our most influential contemporary artists and his masterpiece Maus has shaped
the fields of literature history and art. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its
unique and terrain-shifting status Maus Now is a new collection of essays that sees writers
such as Philip Pullman Robert Storr Ruth Franklin and others approaching the complexity of
Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions. Offering translations of important French
Hebrew and German essays on Maus for the first time this collection edited by 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.
___________________________________________________________________________'The first
masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker on Maus'No summary can do justice to
Spiegelman's narrative skill' Adam Gopnik on Maus'Like all great stories it tells us more
about ourselves than we could ever suspect' Philip Pullman on Maus
