Dylan Review 7.2 is now live! In reviews, Gayle Wald walks us through the latest Bootleg Series release, Through the Open Window and Jonathan Hodgers breaks down Stephen Rings’s new book, What Did You Hear?: The Music of Bob Dylan. Alessandro Carrera evaluates the Italian-language title, Freewheelin’ in Rome; Erin C. Callahan takes us to Ireland to see Dylan in Dublin; and Nicholas Birns ponders Robert Reginio’s Bob Dylan Outside the Law: The Poetics of John Wesley Harding. In addition, Charles O. Hartman sorts through the collection, The Poetry of Bob Dylan: Thirty Essays on Thirty Songs and D. Quentin Miller considers Ron Rosenbaum’s Bob Dylan: Things Have Changed.

Our Dylanista this issue ponders the pastoral in Dylan’s songbook, suggesting a new angle for genre studies, which we follow with a poem, Thomas G. Palaima’s “Songs of Love Sing.” Bill Lattanzi’s essay, “The Lost Rolling Thunder Show” recounts his own youthful (mis)adventures with the Rolling Thunder Revue. And two peer-reviewed articles: the first, by W. Jason Miller–“A Look Inside Bob Dylan’s 1974 Notebooks”–employs archival research to lend new insights into the composition of “Tangled Up in Blue.” The second, “Apollo and the Sad-Eyed Lady: Nietzsche Listening to Dylan,” by Stephen Rive, applies Nietzschean philosophy to Dylan’s mid-60s writings.

A commentary from editor Paul Haney thinks through the genre implications of memoir and autofiction in Sam Sussman’s novel, Boy from the North Country. And finally, an interview with Emma Swift explores the singer-songwriter’s covers of Dylan and more.