Archive - gundwyn

my year in novels: part i

or, trying to learn how to have fun

Dec 10, 2024 •

November 2024

with Homer and Hilary Mantel

Nov 24, 2024 •

September 2024

in defense of the humanities

written in anger

Sep 25, 2024 •

art, meaning, despair

yet another diatribe against the question, 'what is art FOR???'

Sep 24, 2024 •

August 2024

against escapism

fiction is more than a palliative!!

Aug 31, 2024 •

July 2024

the banal apocalypse

julia armfield, science fiction that forecloses the future

Jul 16, 2024 •

what kind of fiction?

literature as world vs. literature as intervention vs. literature as escape

Jul 7, 2024 •

May 2024

taste, agency, and brideshead revisited

Lately taste has started to seem less important to me.

May 9, 2024 •

April 2024

looking at the past with camilla grudova

history is a pile of debris.

Apr 14, 2024 •

pattern recognition syndrome

narrative is ruining my life

Apr 4, 2024 •

March 2024

two models of love and narrative

elizabeth mavor, iris murdoch, ACOTAR

Mar 24, 2024 •

would that i could put genre fiction back in the silo

Mar 4, 2024 •

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