To celebrate the centenary of Einstein’s annus mirabilis, January sees the publication of Rigden’s Einstein 1905 by Harvard University Press. For other angles, he is reading Andrew Whitaker’s Einstein, Bohr and the Quantum Dilemma (Cambridge, 1995) and has just finished Edmund Blair Bolles’s Einstein Defiant (Joseph Henry Press).
Rigden also enjoyed David Cassidy’s Oppenheimer and the American Century (Pi Press). Before that? Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Stalin (Knopf) and Peter Peterson’s Running On Empty: How the Democratic and Republican parties are bankrupting our future and what Americans can do about it (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). For fiction? He is engrossed in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against…
