Is this reboot working? What do two loyal readers think?

This week our mini-theme is superheros. These guys take it to the next level..

The spiritual implications of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. 

What does the recent Spiderman reboot (ten years after the first film) reveal about the human spirit?

Alzheimer's, eternal youth, and more: a theory proposed by a Beams reader.

What six bloggers think...

This could actually mean that we're climbing up the evolutionary ladder.

A review of his book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes.

In short: collaborators, language, sex, violence, poetry, adapters, prolific, Central England, underappreciated.

They're closer than you might think.