| Solar, By Ian McEwan
Physicist Michael Beard, the unlikely seducer at the centre of Ian McEwan’s latest novel, won the Nobel Prize for his Beard-Einstein Conflation, a brilliant theory that allowed him to be sucked along in the slipstream of Einstein’s hurtling importance. Celebrity in his field and honorary degrees ensued, while he coasted through two decades without producing any further original hypotheses, “vaguely weary of himself, bereft of alternatives”.
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