In the Sunday Book Review of The New York Times, Jim Holt considersĀ In Search of Sir Thomas Browne by English science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams, and along the way discussesĀ a “kind of skeptically based faith, known as fideism, [that] was shared by Montaigne (in a perhaps more ironic vein), and also by John Updike.”
Here’s the full review.