Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-388).

Introduction: Maus now / by Hillary Chute -- Contexts. Behind the masks (2003) / Philip Pullman -- Of mice and memory (1988) / Joshua Brown -- Cats, mice, and history: the avant-garde of the comic strip (1985) / Ken Tucker -- Comics and catastrophe: Art Spiegelman's Maus and the history of the cartoon (1987) / Adam Gopnik -- Mauschwitz? Art Spiegelman's "A survivor's tale" (1989) / Kurt Schell -- "The Holocaust in comics?" (1997 and 2021) / Dorit Abusch -- Art Spiegelman's Maus: graphic art and the Holocaust (1996 and 2020) / Thomas Doherty -- Of Maus and memory: the structure of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel of the Holocaust (1993) / Stephen E. Tabachnick -- Problems of representation. My travels with Maus (1992-2020) / Marianne Hirsch -- Cartoons of the self: portrait of the artist as a young murderer -- Art Spiegelman's Maus (1992) / Nancy K. Miller -- "We were talking Jewish": Art Spiegelman's Maus as "Holocaust" production (1994) / Michael Rothberg -- The language of survival: English as metaphor in Spiegelman's Maus (1995) / Alan Rosen -- Holocaust laughter? (1988) / Terrence Des Pres -- Of mice and mimesis: reading Spiegelman with Adorno (2003) / Andreas Huyssen -- Legacy. Making Maus (1991) / Robert Storr -- "The shadow of a past time": history and graphic representation in Maus (2006) / Hillary Chute -- Art Spiegelman's genre-defying Holocaust work, revisited (2011) / Ruth Franklin -- Spiegelman, in Nobody's Land (2009) / Pierre-Alban Delannoy -- Q&A with Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus (2013) / David Samuels -- Everything depends on images: reflections on language and image in Spiegelman's Maus (2018) / Hans Kruschwitz -- The haus of Maus: art Spiegelman's twitchy irreverence (2014) / Alisa Solomon.