What Updike had in common with Montaigne

Screen Shot 2015-07-13 at 6.59.26 PMIn 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.

 

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