The Fall of Spider-Man
With director Julie Taymor out, will Spider-Man soar or splat? Jennifer Egan’s book A Visit from the Goon Squad goes inside the music business, with sleazeball executives, aging stars, and pathological journalists. And Kurt Andersen speaks with two Japan scholars about the imagination of disaster.
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