The
Dylan Review
AN OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL
An open access journal of Bob Dylan studies, featuring reviews, editorials, peer-reviewed articles, essays, poems, interviews, and more.
The Dylan Review provides a forum for rigorous intellectual and creative exploration of Bob Dylan’s art.
Our founding premise is that Bob Dylan is a singular American artist. His songs, performances, and other art continue to challenge our values and institutions, as they have done for over a half-a-century.
With a commitment to interdisciplinary discourse, the Dylan Review hosts conversations on all aspects of Bob Dylan’s work, encouraging scholars, authors, and listeners to participate.
Current issue
Dylan Review Vol. 7.1, Spring/Summer 2025
Dylan Review 7.1 is now live! In reviews, Thomas Palaima revisits Dylan’s Nobel Prize through Dimitrios P. Naskos’s recent book, while Alessandro Carrera examines Fabio Fantuzzi’s catalogue of Norman Raeben paintings; Michael Gilmour sheds light on Lucy Sante’s Six Sermons for Bob Dylan, Britt Eisnor reports on Joan Osborne’s Dylanology tour, and our own Angus Gibson checks out the Point Blank exhibit of Dylan paintings in London.
Our Dylanista this issue thinks through the source of Dylan’s songwriting inspiration, ending with a call to the field to look less into his genius and more into his prosody, which we follow with a poem – “Don’t They” – by David Sheftman. An essay comes our way from Michael Gray linking Thomas Hardy to Dylan and prewar blues, while an article from Bill Lattanzi digs deep into the drafts of “Brownsville Girl.”
Finally, we feature an unpublished interview from 2001, when Griffin Ondaatje spoke to Odetta about Dylan.
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Dylan Review publishes two issues per year, free of charge.
The suggested donation is $15 per issue to cover operational costs, though donations in any amount are greatly appreciated. All contributions may be tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law as advised by a tax professional. Funds in excess of operational costs will be used to sponsor activities such as workshops, invited lectures and exhibitions pertaining to Dylan’s art.
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