by Aseem Gupta | Jul 29, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 37 MinutesRoald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach begins with one of the simplest fantasies in children’s literature: an unhappy boy escapes his cruel guardians inside an impossibly large peach. What makes the novel last, however, is not the peach itself...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 19, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 52 MinutesRoald Dahl’s Matilda is built around one of the simplest and most satisfying fantasies in children’s literature: what if the small child whom foolish adults underestimate is not merely smarter than they are, but eventually becomes powerful...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 9, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 41 MinutesAndrew Colgan’s Pocket Guide to Postmodernism is a very short book attempting something extraordinarily large. In barely more than sixty pages of main text, it traces several centuries of Western philosophy, the rise and failure of socialist...
