Devil in the detail
call them Big ToE books: big as in long, ToE as in “Theory of Everything”. Inspired by the success of writers such as Yuval Noah Harari and Jordan Peterson, this newish genre mixes philosophy with the natural and social sciences to deliver grand explanations of how the world works and what it all means. You would think we’d need only a handful of such books – how many times do we need Everything explained to us? – but now there are dozens,
