A Tennessee school board's ban on Art Spiegelman''s graphic Holocaust novel is part of a culture clash unintentionally sparked by a worthy state effort to improve literacy instruction. (SIRANOSIAN/AFP ...

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, debate continued on how to best teach students about the largest mass murder in history. After a Tennessee school board unanimously voted to remove Holocaust ...

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, debate continued on how to best teach students about the largest mass murder in history. After a Tennessee school board unanimously voted to remove Holocaust ...

"Maus," the decades-old graphic novel about the effects of the Holocaust on a family, has become an Amazon bestseller as part of a backlash to the news this week that it was banned by a Tennessee ...

Sitting forlornly on my bookshelf is a dusty, book-shaped box containing an antiquated item known as a CD- ROM. Titled, “Maus,” it was produced in 1992 and epitomized the cutting edge of hypertext at ...

Art Spiegelman could easily have left his survivor father’s flaws out of the book, but there is nothing easy about “Maus,” writes Andy Silow-Carroll. (JTA) — Art Spiegelman once complained that “Maus, ...

correctionA previous version of this article referred to a nude mouse depicted in Art Spiegelman's graphic novel “Maus.” The illustration in the book actually shows partial female nudity. The article ...

The Chicago Public Library’s One Book, One Chicago program, now in its 21st year, has asked the city to read familiar favorites (“Pride and Prejudice”), harrowing memoirs (Elie Wiesel’s “Night”), ...

Within weeks of a Tennessee school district moving to ban “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel depicting the horrors of the Holocaust, readers are propelling it to the top of best seller ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. NASHVILLE — Tennessee school boards, you may have heard, have been busy lately striking ...

”best” can`t help but be an uneasy task, not to mention a presumptuous one. But that`s never been a deterrent to the National Book Critics Circle, whose executive board will meet on Monday to make its ...