The decision of the school board at McMinn County, Tennessee, to strike from an 8th grade reading list Art Spiegelman's graphic comic "Maus" triggered in our editorial heart a twinge of sympathy. For when we first heard about "Maus," we, too, rejected it. We finally began reading it when Jonathan Rosen serialized it in the Forward, and we came to appreciate the comic as one of the great tellings of the Holocaust story. What had given us pause was the idea of telling the Holocaust story in a...
