Greil Marcus

An insightful exploration of the ways America has read ‘the Great American Novel.’

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

A lot has been written about the notorious concert, but so much of the language around it has been passive and exonerating.

A memoir of the Family Stone.

Mack McCormick’s long, tortured quest to find the real Robert Johnson.

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

Coming to love Puritan poetry is an odd aesthetic journey. It's the sort of thing you expect people partial to bowties and gin gimlets to get involved with.

The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.

A new book by Eric Lott frames white appropriation of blackness as containing the possibility of greater racial solidarity.