On the Interesection of Food and Power in Dylan’s Desire and Genesis 27 By Stephen Hazan Arnoff Share Like desire itself, Bob Dylan’s album of the same name carries more than it can handle. Desire traverses climates of stifling heat as well as the cold of “pyramids all embedded in ice.” It pulses with violence
A new song about an old problem by Clare Burson http://yourlisten.com/LABA/share-share-share Share Not having read or thought much about the story of Jacob and Esau since I was 9 or 10 years old, re-reading the story now, as an adult and as a mother, I was struck most by what terrible parenting Isaac and Rebecca exhibit in
On censored comics and the werewolves of Canaan By Eli Valley Share Like the Bible, comics are twisted dreamscapes. For a time, these dreamscapes were pure, kinetic visual passion, unbound by rules of propriety. Then, in 1954, after ceaseless harassment by government and church leaders outraged over comics’ often horrific, violent and even politically subversive content, the industry
A Modern Rebecca Confesses By Sarah Seltzer When I re-read the story of Jacob and Esau with LABA and realized that its denouement was Jacob’s exile from his family, from his own mother, I was shocked. I thought it might be fun to re-imagine her scheming with another layer
The fugitive on why he did it and the difference between food and a meal By Elissa Strauss Jacob, son of Isaac, has been on the run for two months after taking, some say illegally, most say immorally, his brother Esau’s birthright. Yesterday we sat down with Jacob for an exclusive interview about how he