What the Bible has on Springsteen when it comes to toxic domestic spaces by Stephen Hazan Arnoff What’s missing from much of Bruce Springsteen’s recorded work today, and what makes his older work so compelling, can be found in spades in Leviticus 14. Both the Bible and the Boss take on an impossibly big
A new song about mothering in the wild by Alicia Jo Rabins A note from LABA fellow Alicia Jo Rabins about her song: I am interested in internal wildness, emotional wildness, the secret corners of ourselves we try endlessly to tame – though they may be kept secret even from those closest to us.
Creating love out of the broken pieces by Stephen Hazan Arnoff In “Adam Raised a Cain,” Bruce Springsteen explains what happens when children inherit the burdens of a father whose pain trumps his ability to love: In the Bible Cain slew Abel and East of Eden he was cast You’re born into this life paying
Noah, Phil Ochs, and Us by Stephen Hazan Arnoff It says in the Bible that Noah was the righteous man of his generation, which commentators of old noted was corrupt and twisted. Noah would have done well to make a Marxist exit from the Generation of the Flood – “Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to
Spotify and Its Infinite Towers of Songs by Stephen Hazan Arnoff In her song “Land,” rocker Patti Smith once sang: “At that Tower of Babel they knew what they were after.” I am not sure what she was after in saying those words, but I do know that in the ears of an