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Saskia was never quite of this world to me, as is true for many whose mentors occupy a hallowed place in the mind-heart. Even as I sat across from her...

A total of 40 airmen from Beale Air Force Base teamed up with Naval Special Warfare Operators (SEALs) for a joint Exercise Dragon Trident 1 between Jan. 29 and 31.

You will find no coherent objective or connective philosophy in this collection of “essays” about Dylan’s favourite songs. It as if he chose cut-and-paste rambles from a pointy hat while blindfolded at Michel Foucault’s Halloween party. One critic called it 'a lazy, half-written dog’s dinner'. Personally, I’d be a lot kinder to my dog

Kevin Barents and Jeremy Yudkin reflect on why their interdisciplinary course Bob Dylan: Music and Words is still going strong after 15 years.

I am an inveterate wanderer of library stacks. I could not count the hours whiled away strolling between bookshelves eyeing spines, reciting titles to myself, sometimes plucking a volume from its place to examine a cover. Once in a while, I open one at random to dip into the ceaseless ocean of wor...

The last word, our series about emotions in books, focuses on depictions of isolation this month, from a memoir of grief to Sam Selvon’s Windrush chronicle

Clare Bucknell looks at ways in which poetry and literature have become medicalised in recent years. Books can be...

As a world authority on the Bard – and a long-time fanboy of the American singer, Jonathan Bate compares her (favourably) to the greats of poetry and prose.

As a world authority on the Bard – and a long-time fanboy of the American singer, Jonathan Bate compares her (favourably) to the greats of poetry and prose.

They say the only thing constant is change. Bob Dylan knew it. Hence his classic, "The Times They Are a-Changin'."