A review by joeholmes
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt

5.0

Holt has the rare ability to anticipate my questions and objections, just as I'm scratching my head in puzzlement or shaking it in disagreement, an essential quality in a book that digs deep into contemporary philosophy, theology and physics. Though Holt never answers the title question (you were hoping he would succeed where centuries of thinkers have failed?), he demonstrates why the question is so unanswerable.