“A masterpiece,” says Steven Weinberg of his latest read, Virigina Woolf’s 1927 novel To the Lighthouse (Penguin, 1998). “Not easy to read, but worth it,” he says. Professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, Weinberg has a book of his own, Facing Up, out in paperback this month from Harvard University Press.
He has just finished the biography Churchill, by the late Roy Jenkins (Pan, 2002). Weinberg says he never thought he could go through another account of Winston Churchill’s life, but has persevered as Jenkins didn’t shrink from being cruelly amusing about his…
