# gundwyn

history, utopia, millenarianism, spectatorship, participation, contemporary life, whatever else i want to write about. but mostly novels.

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## [the odyssey and the crisis of fiction](https://gundwyn.substack.com/p/the-odyssey-and-the-crisis-of-fiction)

_2026-08-03 · gundwyn_

:(

## [plotting with bond girls](https://gundwyn.substack.com/p/plotting-with-bond-girls)

_2026-05-11 · gundwyn_

early james bond, formulaic media, narrativization, and how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb???!!

## [rom com mindset](https://gundwyn.substack.com/p/rom-com-mindset)

_2025-09-09 · gundwyn_

Notting Hill, Nora Ephron, Pride and Prejudice, The Green Ray, existential despair

## [postmodern joy](https://gundwyn.substack.com/p/postmodern-joy)

_2025-07-21 · gundwyn_

the Cosmic House, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller

## [winter](https://gundwyn.substack.com/p/winter)

_2024-11-24 · gundwyn_

with Homer and Hilary Mantel

## [in defense of the humanities](https://gundwyn.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-the-humanities)

_2024-09-25 · gundwyn_

I’ve been thinking about this for a long, long time, often wondering why defenses of the humanities feel so flimsy.

## [art, meaning, despair](https://gundwyn.substack.com/p/art-meaning-despair)

_2024-09-24 · gundwyn_

'what is art FOR???' ad nauseum

## [against escapism](https://gundwyn.substack.com/p/against-escapism)

_2024-08-31 · gundwyn_

fiction is more than a palliative!!

## [the banal apocalypse](https://gundwyn.substack.com/p/the-banal-apocalypse)

_2024-07-16 · gundwyn_

julia armfield, science fiction that forecloses the future

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## [what kind of fiction?](https://gundwyn.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-fiction)

_2024-07-07 · gundwyn_

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