A wave of book-banning is washing over America, and Art Spiegelman is its latest target. His acclaimed graphic novel about the Holocaust, “Maus,” was recently banned by a Tennessee school board. The reason cited by the board is content that includes nudity, profanity and violence — this in reference to a book about a concentration camp. Spiegelman wrote the book about his parents, both Auschwitz survivors. In these two recent interviews he tells what the book-banning trend could mean for American democracy, antisemitism, racism and extremism.
