To celebrate the centenary of Einstein鈥檚 annus mirabilis, January sees the publication of Rigden鈥檚 Einstein 1905 by Harvard University Press. For other angles, he is reading Andrew Whitaker鈥檚 Einstein, Bohr and the Quantum Dilemma (Cambridge, 1995) and has just finished Edmund Blair Bolles鈥檚 Einstein Defiant (Joseph Henry Press).
Rigden also enjoyed David Cassidy鈥檚 Oppenheimer and the American Century (Pi Press). Before that? Simon Sebag Montefiore鈥檚 Stalin (Knopf) and Peter Peterson鈥檚 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鈥檚 The Plot Against America: A novel (Houghton Mifflin).
