Katherine V. Snyder

Katherine V. Snyder is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where her current work focuses on contemporary fiction, with a particular interest in post-apocalyptic, post-traumatic, and post-9/11 novels. She has published on Margaret Atwood in Studies in the Novel, Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction, and Women’s Review of Books.


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The End of the End of the World

Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy may be one of the most significant works of 21st-century literature that you haven’t read. Which is surprising, since the novels have been well reviewed, avidly marketed, and abundantly sold. Yet they have been oddly absent from the radar screens of many who consider themselves aficionados of the contemporary novel. This […]