by Aseem Gupta | Aug 24, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Street Lawyer, originally published in 1998, begins with the machinery of a conventional legal thriller: armed violence, frightened lawyers, a mysterious grievance, concealed evidence, and a powerful law firm protecting itself. Yet the novel quickly...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 20, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
David Sedaris’s The Best of Me looks at first like a conventional career retrospective: a successful writer selects favorite pieces from decades of work and gathers them into one volume. Yet the book becomes more revealing than a simple greatest-hits collection...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 16, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Adam Grant’s Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, first published by Viking in 2016, is often described as a book about creativity. That description is incomplete. Grant is less interested in the moment when somebody has an unconventional idea than in...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 13, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Partner, originally published in 1997, begins where many crime novels would end. Patrick Lanigan, once a partner in a respectable Biloxi law firm, has already disappeared, been declared dead, and taken $90 million with him. Four years later, after...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 10, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Solomon Northup begins Twelve Years a Slave with a fact that governs everything that follows: he was born free. He had spent more than thirty years as a citizen of New York, had a wife and children, earned money through several kinds of skilled work, traveled freely,...
