by Aseem Gupta | Oct 30, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Cities are full of things designed not to attract attention. Paint sprayed onto pavement, oddly placed doors, utility poles, grates, plaques, traffic islands, fake trees, strange rooflines, leftover walls, peculiar street names, and uncomfortable benches all become so...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 25, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Some people find the usual career question difficult for reasons that have little to do with laziness, indecision, or lack of ambition. They can imagine themselves doing many things, become genuinely absorbed in several fields, learn quickly when curiosity takes hold,...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 16, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Stephen Clarke’s 1000 Years of Annoying the French looks, from its title, like a long joke at France’s expense. It certainly contains plenty of jokes, but the book’s real project is more interesting. Clarke takes roughly a millennium of relations between England or...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 9, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Published in 2000 by Random House, Omerta was Mario Puzo’s final completed Mafia novel and appeared after his death in 1999. Penguin Random House still lists the novel under its original Random House line, while contemporary accounts of Puzo’s final years describe...
