Issue of July 22, 2013

The Talk of the Town

The Pictures

Surface, Not Depth
by Tad Friend

B-movie producer Roger Corman at eighty-seven.

A Reporter At Large

Operation Easter
by Julian Rubinstein

The obsessive world of illegal egg collectors.

Our Local Correspondents

The Beach Builders
by John Seabrook

After Sandy, saving the Jersey Shore.

The Critics

A Critic at Large

Sins of the Father
by James Wood

Memoirs by the children of great writers.

Books

The Counterlife
by Christine Smallwood

Lionel Shriver’s “Big Brother.”

The Current Cinema

Grim Tidings
by Anthony Lane

“Pacific Rim,” “Only God Forgives,” “The Act of Killing.”

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.”