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Matthew Snider

Matthew Snider reviews books for PopMatters, and writes on culture, literature, and politics from Maryland.

Hervé Le Tellier’s The Anomaly

Hervé Le Tellier’s The Anomaly and the Suspended Step of the World

by Matthew Snider
November 28, 2021

Through his characters, Hervé Le Tellier explores the question of duplication from a personal, social, and philosophical perspective.

Late Summer

Memory Haunts a Lonely Hunter: Luiz Ruffato’s Late Summer

by Matthew Snider
June 23, 2021

Late Summer is a quiet novel about loneliness, the universal human desire to be seen and felt, and the slow cost of isolation.

Peter Stamm, The Sweet Indifference of the World

Reconciling Memory: Peter Stamm’s The Sweet Indifference of the World

by Matthew Snider
January 3, 2020

Stamm accomplishes something remarkable by giving the reader a story that’s simultaneously disorienting and comforting.

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father

Who Killed My Father Is Heartbreaking but Prone to Pat Sociological Analysis

by Matthew Snider
March 19, 2019

Édouard Louis’s latest is strong as a portrait of a family unable to communicate through anything but volatile, toxic outbursts.

Édouard Louis, History of Violence

As I Lay Surrendering: Édouard Louis’s History of Violence

by Matthew Snider
June 6, 2018

At its best, History of Violence about the tension between desire and danger, between passion and destruction.

Jon Robin Baitz, Vicuña

The Emperor Has New Clothes: Jon Robin Baitz’s Vicuña

by Matthew Snider
April 29, 2018

Vicuña is populated with characters even more thinly veiled than Gore Vidal’s were 60 years ago in The Best Man.

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