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Tuesday, October 12, 1999
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What We're Reading
The Kinsey Report
Continuing her alphabetical sequence, Sue Grafton finally delivers "O" Is for
Outlaw. This time, detective Kinsey Millhone takes on the
mystery of her own past--and clears up some tantalizing riddles about
her childhood, her parents, and her disastrous marriage to a troubled
vice cop.
Recent "What We're Reading" Picks:
• Galileo's
Daughter, by Dava Sobel
• Plainsong,
by Kent Haruf
• The
Lamorna Wink, by Martha Grimes
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
 The Code War
Simon Singh, who made a bestseller out of Fermat's last theorem, gives a
marvelously clear account of the history of codebreaking--from Egyptian
hieroglyphics to Hitler's Enigma to the latest computer encryptions--in
The Code
Book. Solve Singh's Cipher Challenge for a chance to win
$15,000! 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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