by Aseem Gupta | Sep 27, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Valley of Fear is one of the strangest Sherlock Holmes novels because the mystery that first appears to define the book turns out to be only its outer shell. A man is apparently murdered inside an isolated English manor, his face destroyed by...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 23, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Arthur Conan Doyle had already given Sherlock Holmes one of the most famous exits in popular fiction when the detective apparently plunged to his death with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Doyle subsequently returned to Holmes in The Hound of the...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 20, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Mark Manson’s Everything Is Fcked: A Book About Hope* begins with an uncomfortable paradox. Human beings have become extraordinarily good at solving material problems, extending life, reducing many forms of violence and disease, increasing access to information,...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 17, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, first published in book form in 1895, is one of the foundational works of modern science fiction. Its most famous invention is obvious from the title: a machine that allows its operator to move deliberately through time. The idea became...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 15, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
When Stephen Hawking published The Universe in a Nutshell in 2001, he was returning to a scientific landscape that had changed considerably since A Brief History of Time appeared thirteen years earlier. Cosmologists had accumulated stronger evidence for an expanding...
