While his place in American literary history is not quite as exalted as Shakespeare’s in the British tradition, Whitman is widely regarded and taught as the “poet of democracy,” the writer who set out ...

This is a man who contains multitudes, a man who plays with masks, a man who has never ceased to surprise us. He is a man who would be an outlaw, though has always served somebody; the man who sold ...

Bob Dylan recently released two very good new songs, his first two original songs in eight years — the 17-minute stream-of-consciousness “Murder Most Foul” and the shorter but lyrically similar “I ...

Bob Dylan‘s songs often contain “multitudes,” to use a Walt Whitman phrase Dylan borrowed for a recent track. Occasionally, he narrows his focus down to a single topic. And when that topic is love ...

For Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday this past week, Variety selected 80 of the best or most undervalued interpretations of Dylan’s work ever recorded. Was that sufficient covers coverage? The answer is ...

Former staff writer Randall Roberts covered Los Angeles music culture for the Los Angeles Times. He had served various roles since arriving at The Times in 2010, including music editor and pop music ...