Dylan Review 8.1 is now live! In reviews, Anne Margaret Daniel covers Robert Polito’s latest book, After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace, while Andrew Beck takes on Jim Windolf’s Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and The Beatles Changed Each Other – and the World. Robert Reginio shares his thoughts on Michael Glover Smith’s Bob Dylan as Filmmaker. Olivia Carter Mather examines the Dylan portions of Christopher K. Coffman’s Clowns in the Burying Ground: The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy. And Christine Hand Jones lets us know what it’s like “To Be Alone with Dylan on the Long Hot Summer Tour.”

Our Dylanista this issue muses over the poetic tradition of invective in Dylan’s early songs before two poems grace our pages: Mike Schneider’s “Shadow Kingdom” and Erica Zeitman’s “Strange Fruit: No Shelter from the Storm.” Likewise, a set of illustrations from Celia Rabinovitch speak to Dylan’s “sense of visual poetry.”

Timothy Hampton supplies an essay, “Bob Dylan’s Dream Songs: Four Notes” followed by two articles. In the first, “‘Preoccupied with his vengeance’: Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, ‘Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?,’ and the Crafting of a Biographical Episode,” Marc A. Mamigonian analyzes truth and fabrication in the famously contemptuous Dylan-Ochs limo ride. The second, “Side to Side: The Unheard Bob Dylan-Sam Shepard Tapes,” features archival research from a Dylan-Shepard recording unearthed by co-authors Mason Moreno and Jon Lasser.

Finally, an interview with Eric Lott, author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class—from which Dylan took the title for his 2001 album—ranges over race and history, minstrelsy and pilfery in the Dylan canon.