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Wednesday, October 13, 1999
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What We're Reading
Test Case
The postwar inventors of the Scholastic Aptitude Test hoped to produce a
brainier brand of meritocracy in the United States. But as Nicholas
Lemann reveals in The Big
Test, the SAT hit a great many ideological potholes--and ended
up creating yet another, pencil-pushing elite.
Recent "What We're Reading" Picks:
• "O"
Is for Outlaw, by Sue Grafton
• Galileo's
Daughter, by Dava Sobel
• Plainsong,
by Kent Haruf
Interviews, Articles, and More
What If?
October is Alternate History Month! Take a look at our counterfactual
feature,
in which such luminaries as Niall Ferguson [right] speculate
about what might have been. In History
Plus:
• Hollywood insider Tim Appelo reveals
all about Ally McBeal.
• Claire Messud on the incessant fabrications of family
history.
• We go
undercover with courtroom king Scott Turow.
In Bestsellers
 World Wide Webmaster
The spotlight-dodging creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee,
entertainingly explains how he and a few eccentric friends did it in
Weaving the
Web--and casts bright light on the road ahead. Read more
Featured in the Media
Oprah's Latest Pick
Check out Oprah's most recent selection, Maeve Binchy's Tara
Road, and come back Thursday for her next big announcement!
Plus, take a look at our Oprah®
page.
Plus:
• Witness to
Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, by George Weigel, in
National Review®
• Big
Ugly, by William F. Weld, on NBC's Today®
• Survival of
the Prettiest, by Nancy Etcoff, in The New York Review of
Books®
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