Sometimes you can point to a single, humble work of art — it may be a song, a movie, a book or a work of visual art — and find in it a key to an entire zeitgeist. You would assume, in such cases, that ...

Even if Bob Dylan made the best songs of the modern age, he did have some questions around when he should let his guard down.

Something is happening here, and unlike the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man,” we do know what it is: We are living in an age of high anxiety. One need only look around to see evidence of a ...

Sixty years ago this month, Bob Dylan released “Ballad in Plain D,” the only song he says he regrets recording. “I must have been a real schmuck to write that,” he said in a 1985 interview with Bill ...

When Roger McGuinn inadvertently co-wrote “The Ballad of Easy Rider” with Bob Dylan for the Easy Rider soundtrack in 1969, he couldn’t have known that he was writing an anthem for the counterculture.