book essays

10 Ways To Love Reading

Make 2026 the year you read more books!

Jan 14 • Keith Walpole

10 Favorite Books in 2025

The best books I read this year.

Dec 26, 2025 • Keith Walpole

Searching for Shackleton's Endurance

Maritime archaeologist Mensun Bound's lessons learned while searching for Endurance.

Mar 14, 2025 • Keith Walpole

How Shackleton Crossed The Drake Passage

A deep-dive into the equipment, food, and navigation that helped Shackleton sail the roughest seas in the world.

Mar 7, 2025 • Keith Walpole

Exploring Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

In Isaac Asimov's novel I, Robot, the Three Laws of Robotics govern machines. What ethics and guidelines govern today's AI?

Nov 21, 2024 • Keith Walpole

High-Rise: Surrealist Dystopia

In 1975 J.G. Ballard imagined a concrete landscape as midwife to a new social class.

Oct 11, 2024 • Keith Walpole

Childhood's End: The Stars Are Not For Man

Taking a look at Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 sci-fi novel.

Mar 8, 2024 • Keith Walpole

If We Know Aliens Exist But We Don't Change, Are We Intelligent?

Exploring the profound implications for humanity behind Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s science fiction novel The Roadside Picnic.

Nov 25, 2023 • Keith Walpole

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