by Aseem Gupta | Sep 30, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Ravi Zacharias’s Sense and Sensuality begins with an unusual literary experiment: Oscar Wilde is dying in a cheap Paris hotel when his failing consciousness carries him into an imagined final conversation with Jesus Christ and, eventually, Blaise Pascal. Wilde’s wit,...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 17, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The King of Torts, originally published in 2003 and still available through Penguin Random House, begins with a legal protagonist who looks familiar enough: J. Clay Carter II is a young Washington lawyer who believes he is capable of more than his...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 4, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Summons begins with a familiar legal-thriller ingredient—a commanding old Mississippi judge—but quickly turns away from the courtroom. The central problem is private rather than public. Ray Atlee, a law professor who has spent much of his adult life...