"Today, more than a half-century after Kinsey's research broke like a tidal wave across the postwar American calm, with the publication of his "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" in 1948 and the companion "Human Female" volume in '53, he and the new territories he helped open up in American culture remain turbulently unsettled topics. The capable Kinsey film and a rich new novel about his career, T.C. Boyle's "The Inner Circle," arrive at a time when the country seems as whipsawed as ever about sex. Each work vibrates in a distinct chord struck between past and present," Steven Winn reports for the San Francisco Chronicle.