Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman's work Maus Now gathers together many of
contemporary culture's leading critics authors and academics on the radical achievement and
innovation of Maus more than forty years since its first publication. Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists it is hard to
overstate his effect on postwar American culture. Maus has shaped the fields of literature
history and art and enlivened our collective sense of possibilities for expression. A
timeless work in more ways than one Maus has also often been at the center of debates as its
recent ban from school language arts curricula in McMinn County Tennessee has shown. Maus Now:
Selected Writing collects responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting
status. Here writers such as Philip Pullman Robert Storr Ruth Franklin and others approach
Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions inspired by the material's complexity. The
book is organized into three loosely chronological sections: Contexts Problems of
Representation and Legacy and offers translations of important French Hebrew and German
essays on Maus for the first time. Maus is revelatory and generative in profound and
long-lasting ways. With this collection American literary scholar (and expert on comics and
graphic narratives) Hillary Chute assembles the best work around the globe exploring this
classic graphic biography.
