The Rigor of Angels

‘Leaves you smiling. Over and over again the author reminds you of the shimmering weirdness beneath the experiential surface of what we are pleased to call the real world… A marvellous eye-widening read’ - Spectator‘Mind-expanding… Elegantly written… explores nothing less than ‘the ulti-mate nature of reality’… This is a book about the tiniest of things - the position of an electron, an instant of change. It is also about the biggest of things - the cosmos, infinity, the possibility of free will’ - New York Times ‘Fascinating’ - Carlo Rovelli

William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities, chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of multiple books, including How the World Became a Stage (2003) and The Man Who Invented Fiction (2016).