Talkin’ New York. Copyright © 1962, 1965 by Duchess Music Corporation; renewed 1990,1993 by MCA. Bob Dylan’s Blues. Copyright © 1963, 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991, 1992 by Special Rider Music. Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. Copyright © 1966 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1994 by Dwarf Music. Time Passes Slowly. Copyright © 1970 […]
Michael Glover Smith. Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think. McNidder & Grace, 2026. Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think. McNidder & Grace, 2026. Robert Polito. After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace. Liveright, 2026. Walters, Jack. Bob Dylan: Song by Song. Pen & Sword Books, 2026. Jim Windolf. Where the […]
Nicholas Birns teaches modern and contemporary literature at the School of Professional Studies, New York University. His recent books include The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien (2024), and the co-authored Agatha Christie Under the Magnifying Glass (with Margaret Boe Birns, 2025). Erin C. Callahan is a professor of English at […]
The Dylan Review spoke to songwriter Emma Swift about covering Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and her own creative process. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Dylan Review: As we speak, you’re back in Nashville after playing the historic Bearsville Theater in Dylan’s old stomping ground of Woodstock. How was it? Emma […]
Boy from the North Country: Sam Sussman’s Overly Cautious Autofiction By Paul Haney If you write a novel, readers will want to know which parts of your story are true; a memoir, which parts are made up. Sam Sussman’s Boy from the North Country—an “auto-fictional novel,” according to its publisher, Penguin finds itself with […]
Apollo and the Sad-Eyed Lady: Nietzsche Listening to Dylan By Stephen Rive We do not always keep our eyes . . . from finishing off the poem; and then it is no longer eternal imperfection that we carry across the river of becoming—we then feel that we are carrying a goddess, and are proud and […]
Too ‘Tangled Up in Blues’: A Look Inside Bob Dylan’s 1974 Notebooks By W. Jason Miller, North Carolina State University Over twenty pages of Dylan’s handwritten lyrics to “Tangled Up in Blue” (1974) are now available for study at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1] These lyrics are located in two small 5 […]
“The Lost Rolling Thunder Show” By Bill Lattanzi Trapped forever in grains of silver, thirty four year-old Bob Dylan is blasting through “Isis,” his clear blue eyes fixed on a far-off vision of the song’s “outrageous” snow, harmonica wrapped in an arm-pumping fist. Totem, talisman, sole surviving evidence, I’ve kept the photo with me […]
“Songs of Love Sing” By Thomas G. Palaima Songs of love sing fire, ice and stone forever together nevermore alone hearts call out to hearts gently, true and sweet birds sing joyous songs in songs, when lovers meet arm and arm, hand and hand, dancing at the edge of sand, songs sing […]
Dylan once said, memorably, “all my songs are protest songs.” Common consensus is he was referring not to genre so much as to an attitude, not content so much as ethos. And, in fact, analyzing Dylan through the lens of attitude or ethos has gotten more screen time than genre studies. But what if he […]
