Dylan Review 4.2 (Fall/Winter 2022-23) is now live! In this issue’s reviews, Jonathan Hodgers takes a look at the philosophy of Dylan’s latest book, The Philosophy of Modern Song; Christopher Rollason breaks down Greil Marcus’s Folk Music: A Dylan Biography in Seven Songs; Scott F. Parker explores myth and history through Freddy Cristobal Dominguez’s Bob Dylan in the Attic; Richard F. Thomas creates a dialog with Raphael Falco’s No One to Meet: Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan; James O’Brien weighs in on the musical Girl from the North Country; and Robert Reginio reports from the Zarrow Center’s June conference, Dylan and the Beats. The Dylanista this time around examines personal identity in Dylan’s early versus later songs while a poem each appears from David Bond and Thomas Palaima. In articles, Harriet Archer draws comparisons between Dylan and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, while Nicholas Bornholt’s “Whispers on Contraband” examines race and the blues through “Blind Willie McTell.” Lastly, an interview with Mark Howard, engineer on Oh Mercy and Time Out of Mind, provides fresh insights into Dylan’s recording process.

 

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