by Aseem Gupta | Jul 29, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Roald 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 but the transformation...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 19, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Roald 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 enough to defeat them? Yet...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 9, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Andrew 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 political movements, the...
