Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream. Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. Boots of Spanish Leather. Copyright © 1963, 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991, 1992 by Special Rider Music. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. Copyright © 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music. […]
Kevin Kane. Bob Dylan: Seeking Mirth & Beauty: Musings on How Things Come to Be. Genius Music Books, 2026. Scott Peeples. How Many Roads: A Life of Bob Dylan. Reaktion Books, 2026.
Andrew Beck is the author of best-selling and frequently cited works such as Cultural Work (2003). He retired from Coventry University in 2017 but continues to teach, advise, research, and publish. In the last the years he has contributed to and edited eleven books, mainly on UK media politics, and occasional features for China Eye. […]
Eric Lott, author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, talked to Dylan Review editor Paul Haney in July 2026, via video call. Eric Lott is an American cultural historian and Distinguished Professor of English at The Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City. This interview has been edited for length […]
By some accounts, the mid-to-late-eighties were not kind to Bob Dylan, containing some of his less appreciated and undervalued creative output.1 In fact, when Dylan reflects on his newfound inability to compose and perform around this time in Chronicles: Volume One, he writes: “I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . I’m […]
“‘Preoccupied with his vengeance’: Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, ‘Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?,’ and the Crafting of a Biographical Episode” By Marc A. Mamigonian “when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”1 Of all the twice-told tales of Bob Dylan’s anni mirabiles […]
“Bob Dylan’s Dream Songs: Four Notes” By Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley I cannot quite say how I entered there, Being so full of sleep that I wandered off The true path … Dante Alighieri, Inferno I Bob Dylan doesn’t often write about fantastic visions, as did John Lennon in songs like […]
“Play a Song for Me” By Celia Rabinovitch I was born on the Canadian Prairies in the small town of Morden, Manitoba, not far from the American border and Hibbing, Minnesota, Dylan’s hometown. My father owned a dry goods store in an old establishment from 1910; the business my grandfather founded in the 1890s. […]
“Strange Fruit: No Shelter From The Storm” By Erica Zeitman I wrote “Strange Fruit: No Shelter From the Storm” for my class UGS 302 Bob Dylan History and Imagination with Prof. Tom Palaima at UT Austin. His final writing assignment asked us to think, feel and write about how the songs and events of […]
“Shadow Kingdom” By Mike Schneider At the Bon-Bon Club in old Marseilles, the band is crammed on two forklift pallets—two guitars, plug-in acoustic & here-come-old-flat-top electric & a ten-buttoned melodeon in & out breathing carnivalesque squeals each player masked, covid-style, black, hooked at the ears. Shadowed in cocktail-table candlelight, a blonde woman holds tempo […]
