Bob Dylan: Things Have Changed by Ron Rosenbaum
(Melville House)
October 21, 2025
ROSENBAUM began his career as a Village Voice journalist and has been covering and interviewing Dylan for decades. Here, he dives into not only the catalogue but also the context of the artist’s life in which the music was created, including Dylan’s peregrinations into Christianity and return to a form of Judaism. The detailed biography delves all the way back to events like Dylan’s father bringing a rabbi to rural Minnesota to serve as his son’s bar mitzvah tutor. The resulting analysis of the songs and their detailed backstories makes this one for the mega-fans and the Dylan-curious alike. Jonathan Rothman
