Einstein in Love by Dennis Overbye, Viking, $27.95, ISBN
0670894303
TEN YEARS is a long, long time in publishing, but it’s time well spent
waiting for Dennis Overbye’s Einstein in Love. Overbye is deputy science
editor of The New York Times and wrote Lonely Hearts of the
Cosmos. A fly-on-the-wall account of modern cosmologists’ epic struggle to
make sense of the Universe, that book ranks as one of the best popular science
books ever written. A decade on, Overbye’s subject is Albert Einstein.
Can there be anything new to say about Einstein? Overbye doubted
it—until he stumbled into a debate…
