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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s Superpower is That He Doesn’t Get Embarrassed
Ron Rosenbaum on the Icon and the Enigma
By
Ron Rosenbaum
| October 28, 2025
Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan accidentally visited the world's largest publishing trade fair.
By
James Folta
| October 24, 2024
How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be
David Browne on Max Gordon, Prohibition, and the Transformative Creation of the Village Vanguard
By
David Browne
| September 18, 2024
Marlon James on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, Authenticity as Pose, and Not Reading His Book Reviews
In Conversation with Griffin Ondaatje
By
Griffin Ondaatje
| January 4, 2024
Kurt Vonnegut thought Bob Dylan was "the worst poet alive."
By
Emily Temple
| November 9, 2023
How Bob Dylan Blurred the Boundaries Between Literature and Popular Music
Lucy Sante on the Poetic Evolution of Mid-Century America's Folkloric Bard
By
Lucy Sante
| October 24, 2023
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
How Bob Dylan Became a Counterculture Icon
By
Aaron J. Leonard
| February 27, 2023
The Philosophy of Modern Song
by Bob Dylan, Read by a Full Cast
By
Behind the Mic
| November 28, 2022
Fans aren’t happy about their $600 autopen-signed copies of Bob Dylan’s new book.
By
Jonny Diamond
| November 21, 2022
Someone Has to Say It: Bob Dylan’s New Book Would Have Been Better as a Podcast
Natalia Holtzman Isn’t Sure We Really Needed
The Philosophy of Modern Song
By
Natalia Holtzman
| November 18, 2022
18 new books to kick your November reading into gear.
By
Katie Yee
| November 1, 2022
Here are the songs Bob Dylan is writing about in his forthcoming book on “modern song.”
By
Jonny Diamond
| August 26, 2022
Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?
By
Jonny Diamond
| July 26, 2022
Shadows of WWII in Ukraine: The Life and Afterlife the Second World War
Andrew Keen on the Role of History in Looking to the Future
By
Andrew Keen
| March 25, 2022
A new book on songwriting is coming from Bob Dylan.
By
Walker Caplan
| March 9, 2022
What Bob Dylan Does—Or Doesn’t—Know About the Assassination of JFK
Jefferson Morley Revisits the Nobel Laureate’s Recent No. 1, “Murder Most Foul”
By
Jefferson Morley
| November 22, 2021
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The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
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Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"