Dylan Review 5.2 (Fall/Winter 2023-24) is now live! In this issue, Alessandro Carrerra wraps his head around Davidson and Fishel’s edited collection, Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine. Eyolf Østrem sings the praises of Ray Padgett’s book of interviews, Pledging My Time. Erin Callahan provides a close reading of The Complete Budokan 1978. Freddy Cristóbal Dominguez takes a look at Terri Thal’s memoir, My Greenwich Village. Kathryn Lofton contemplates Stephen Daniel Arnoff’s book, About Man & God & Law. Anne Margaret Daniel tours the Northeast with the Rough and Rowdy Ways fall tour, and reflects on Dylan’s setlists. And Rebecca Slaman reports from Pleasantville, NY on “An Evening with the Bob Dylan Center.”

Elsewhere in the issue, our Dylanista explores yet another side of Dylan’s prophetic voice with “The Weatherman Paradox.” A pair of poems – Thomas Palaima’s “The Progress of Man: Paradise Paved” and Richard Morgan’s “Steel Rails Hum (song for a singer)” – grace our pages while John M. Radosta offers  an essay: “The Loveliest and the Best: The Tapestry of Influence of Omar Khayyám’s Rubáiyat on the Works of Bob Dylan.” Finally, as a tie-in to Eyolf Østrem’s review, we have a conversation with Ray Padgett that digs into his process of interviewing Bob’s bandmates.