Bob Dylan

Getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives.

The iconic songwriter has transcended time and place for 60 years. What should that mean for the rest of us?

In the six decades of his career, Bob Dylan has mined America’s past for images, characters, and events that speak to the nation’s turbulent present.

The sale of the singer-songwriter’s catalogue is a reminder of his massive cultural legacy.

"How long can it go on?"

The author reflects on his own journey with Dylan, and shares some of his favorite pieces of Dylanology.

Had Bob Dylan not written a song about it, the 1963 killing of a black servant by a white socialite’s cane might have been long forgotten.

The making of “Blonde on Blonde” in Nashville, Tennessee.

On the long and continuing struggle of women artists for recognition on their own terms.

In the 1960s, youth counterculture spawned Christian rock.

From Bob Dylan to David Bowie to The Beatles, the legendary Beat writer’s influence reached beyond literature into music in surprising ways.

Bob Dylan's confessional album resisted the political radicalism and activism of 1967.

Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose is the latest example of the struggles around Jewish representation on the stage and screen.

Europeans translated the "Chinese Book of Changes" in the nineteenth century, but the philosophy really took off in the West after 1924.

Johnny Cash wasn't the only superstar to play in prisons. Music, initially allowed as worship, came to be seen as a rockin' tool of rehabilitation.

Jerry Lee Lewis was known as the Killer, and it wasn’t a casual sobriquet.

The Folkies and WWII, Part Two.

A legendary singer on faith, loss, and a family legacy.

She animated the horror and emotional intensity in American labor songs by projecting them like a European opera singer.

After the 1927 Great Flood, Black musicians from the Delta produced an outpour of songs testifying to the destruction. The same is true today.