Beams and Struts - Contributors

Literary Excerpt: Margaret Atwood on Batman

Â Â Margaret Atwood explores science fiction, fantasy and mythology in her newest bookÂ In Other Worlds. This excerpt contains her look at Batman through a Jungian lens.

Published in Beams & Struts - Bricolage: Daily Bits & Pieces

Why Superman Wears His Underwear On the Outside of His Costume

Â Â Â And what does this say about the human condition?

Published in Beams & Struts - Nuts & Bolts : Magazine Style Articles

Are You Controlled by Your Inner Pigdog? - the Neurobiology of Choice

Â Â Â What exactly is going on in our heads when we give in to a craving?

Published in Beams & Struts - Nuts & Bolts : Magazine Style Articles

Batman Died For Our Sins: Redemption According to Christopher Nolan

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

Published in Beams & Struts - Nuts & Bolts : Magazine Style Articles

Totem Figures Interview with Mark Meer

Â Â Mark Meer is an Edmonton based actor, writer and improvisor. His totems are Jim Henson, John Cleese, Alan Moore, Doctor Doom, and Tom Waits.

Published in Beams & Struts - Podcasts

The Fugue Fugue

Â Living in the information age has most of us doing mental juggling routines as a matter of course. Are we more distracted and fragmented? Or is this good exercise for us?Â

Published in Beams & Struts - The Workshop : Long Form Essays

Innocence Lost: Stories Set in the Early 60s

In great fiction, the main character is the setting.Â

Published in Beams & Struts - The Workshop : Long Form Essays

Â Living in the information age has most of us doing mental juggling routines as a matter of course. Can we handle it? Are we getting more distracted and fragmented? Or is this good exercise for us? Have we long had an underfed capacity for complexity that’s only now being regularly fertilized? Â Â

Published in Beams & Struts - The Workshop : Long Form Essays

Comics and TV Shows Are Getting Brainier

Television shows and comic books have long been considered fluff and little else, even by their fans. But in the past decade both media have evolved, offering more challenging and richer stuff to anyone willing to go along for the ride. And what spurred this evolution? Us.

Published in Beams & Struts - The Workshop : Long Form Essays