Issue of July 8 & 15, 2013

The Talk of the Town

The Financial Page

Middle-Class Militants
by James Surowiecki

Brazil’s revolt in the midst of relative prosperity.


Personal History

The Prodigal Daughter
by Jill Lepore

Women’s lives, women’s letters.
Annals of Technology

A Fourth State of Matter
by Nicholson Baker

Notes from an LCD pilgrimage.
Fiction

“All Ahead of Them”
by Tobias Wolff


The Critics

The Current Cinema

In Transit
by Anthony Lane

“The Way, Way Back,” “I’m So Excited.”