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All Along the Watchtower. Copyright © 1968 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1996 by Dwarf Music. All rights reserved. Angelina. Copyright © 1981 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. Ballad of a Thin Man. Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. Black Rider. Copyright © 2020 […]
Dylan at 80: It Used to Go Like That, Now It Goes Like This. Edited by Gary Browning and Constantine Sandis. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2021. Larry Starr, Listening to Bob Dylan. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
Nicholas Birns teaches modern and contemporary literature at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts, School of Professional Studies, New York University. His articles have appeared in Exemplaria, Angelaki, Victorian Studies, and MLQ. His latest book is The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Space (Lexington, 2019).He teaches a Bob Dylan course regularly and contributed […]
The Dylan Review spoke with poet and translator Alessandro Carrera in fall 2021. DR: Do you translate the lyrics as poetry on the page or as songs to be performed? Do Italian performers cover Dylan songs in Italian? AC: I’ll start from the second part of the question if you don’t mind. Yes, there are […]
DR spoke to Laura Tenschert, host of the Definitely Dylan podcast, over videochat in October, followed by an email exchange in December. The Definitely Dylan podcast is available on all podcast platforms; Definitely Dylan radio is available through Spotify; or you can visit definitelydylan.com. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. DR: At […]
Christopher Star, Middlebury College “I and I”: Bob Dylan and William Shakespeare’s King Richard III With the release of The Bootleg Series Volume 16: Springtime in New York 1980-1985, I’ve been revisiting tracks from my favorite album from that period, 1983’s Infidels. I’ve always thought that the song “I and I” is one of the […]
Graley Herren, Xavier University Resurrecting Dying Voices in “Every Grain of Sand” On November 5, 2021, at the end of the third concert of his Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour, Bob Dylan surprised and delighted the Cleveland audience by closing with “Every Grain of Sand.” He had not played the song since 2013, […]
Don’t Look Now: Reading Aloud to Ghosts By Thomas G. Palaima, University of Texas “You ever seen a ghost? NoBut you have heard of them.” The blind side, they say, is what hits you by surprise. It can drive you to your knees, tap your shoulder, caress you gently. The sudden […]
Two years ago in this column I wondered what a Dylan scholar would look like in the coming years. Now I’m wondering something different: if a Dylan scholar is the same creature as a Dylan critic. And since critics multiply faster than scholars, what is the function of a Dylan critic—or, to use a phrase […]
