by Aseem Gupta | Oct 27, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows begins with a problem so ordinary that it barely sounds philosophical: how do you install electric lights, plumbing, heating, glass and modern toilets in a traditional Japanese house without making the house look wrong?...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 17, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Pauline Harmange’s I Hate Men became internationally famous because of a title that seems to announce an uncomplicated hostility toward half the human race. Its publication history intensified that impression: after the French essay appeared in 2020, an adviser...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 7, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
When Stéphane Hessel published Indignez-vous! in France in 2010, he was ninety-three years old. The text was scarcely long enough to qualify as a conventional political book, yet it became an international publishing phenomenon and helped supply a language of...
