His identity was a performance ... which in one sense is a parable of artistic ruthlessness—needs a climax. And Bob Dylan, more than most rock stars, is a myth. In all senses of the word.

Although this term is typically found in a religious context, Bob Dylan claimed that the same thing happened to him and his sense of identity in the late 1960s. “I’m not like you. Am I?” ...

I’ll admit it straight off: I don’t know how to write about Bob Dylan ... want to see as Dylan devotee, but one that is also unsatisfying in a lot of other ways. “Art is a disagreement ...

Aptly subtitled A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, it’s less a documentary and more a fictionalized retelling of a nonfiction event, a lovingly assembled puzzle about the artifice of art itself.

I have two wolves inside me: the one yearning for the ambitious, prickly kaleidoscope of several Bob ... identity with the staff of a nearby hotel. Who’s Directing? Easy: Just call up frequent ...

James Mangold’s excellent biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” chronicles Bob Dylan’s (Timothée ... When fame hits, Dylan retreats. How he navigates commerce and art as well as doing what ...

Someone sidles up to me, Negroni or Coke in hand, and asks, sotto voce, Have you seen the Bob Dylan movie ... I think this ability to try on a new identity — something the movie shows him ...