Bruce Springsteen

I grew up in a mile-square beachfront town sixty miles south of New York City. From the time I was six years old, when my family left its North Jersey urban roots, every summer day was spent on the beach. When my sister and I were old enough, we peddled there on our bikes to […]

Brian Bork writes about the ways that America’s post 9/11 “patriotism” surfaced in cheap country pop, and how the artistry of Springsteen’s “The Rising” captured the real heart and soul of a mourning nation.