Red Rising vs Maus

Pierce Browns 'Red Rising' takes the dystopian genre to the stars. On a color-coded Mars, Darrow is a Red, the lowest caste, working in the mines to make the surface habitable. When he discovers the ruling Golds have been living in luxury while his people suffer, he undergoes a dangerous transformation to infiltrate their society and bring it down from within. It is a high-octane, brutal, and deep...

Art Spiegelmans 'Maus' is a monumental work that recounts his fathers experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. By depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, Spiegelman creates a powerful, distancing effect that makes the horrors of the past more digestible yet deeply impactful. It is the only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, cementing its status as a cornerstone of 20th-century lit...