NPR interview 4/27/15 New York Times article
May 2015: Maus was taken out of Russian bookstores because it has a swastika on its cover: 4 min.(Even if it's not a "novel," but a combination biography+autobiography).11, 2016: " Why Maus Remains 'the greatest graphic novel ever written,' 30 years later," by Michael Cavna, in the Washington Post.
Users can sign up for a one-month subscription for $10 to download a pdf of the entire resource. 2017: LitCharts has created a comprehensive teacher's guide to Maus for high school AP (Advanced Placement=college level courses) students. Listening would be great preparation for teaching or leading a class discussion on the books.
This is an excellent interview, since Baer is also an expert on Maus.March 10, 2020: Uli Baer interviewed Hillary Chute, who edited Metamaus after years of informal interviews with Art Spiegelman, for the podcast series New Books in Genocide Studies (58 mins.): Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' (also available on apple podcasts, for example).5, 2022: " Art Spiegelman on Maus and free speech: 'Who's the snowflake now?'" (Luke Winkie at The Guardian) 2, 2022: " Banned by Tennessee School Board, 'Maus' Soars to the Top of Bestseller Charts" (Nora McGreevy in Smithsonian Magazine) 10, 2022 meeting, the McMinn County (Tennessee) School Board voted unanimously to ban the teaching of Maus in 8th grade classes ( minutes of the meeting, 23 page pdf) It is written in a comic book format, with various types of animals representing the various nationalities (and religions: Jews are generally mice, no matter what nationality they are). Maus is a story within a story: Art Spiegelman, the son of two survivors of the Holocaust, tells how he interviewed his father Vladek about his father's Holocaust experience, and he also tells the story of the father's persecution and suvival. Harold Marcuse, and Resources for Art Spiegelman's Maus (1986, 1991)
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