A Jan. 2, 2013, New York Times story previewed the conference at the Center for Jewish History and explored religious aspects of the most famous superhero.

Read a Feb. 1, 2013, Smart Set column about a conference at the Center for Jewish History that celebrated the Man of Steel’s 75th birthday — and focused on his Jewish roots.

Read an article in the February 2013 edition of Smithsonian magazine.

Read an April 7, 2013, column in the Huffington Post by S. Brent Plate, a visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College.

Read this New Republic article published April 18, 2013, to mark the Man of Steel’s 75 years.

Read a Q-and-A in the April 28, 2013, edition of Our Sunday Visitor with Franciscan University of Steubenville philosophy professor Jonathan Sanford, co-editor of Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry.

Read a May 3, 2013, story at Slate about emerging technologies that could give people enhanced abilities. It asks: “If humans become superhuman, will we turn out to be superheroes — or supervillains?”

In his review of Iron Man 3 in The New Yorker (subscription required for full version), critic Anthony Lane also explores the relationship between the film’s violence and the bombing in Boston.

Read The New York Times’ review of Iron Man 3.