A.B.T. has just given us a wonderful season, so spirits (at least my spirits) have been high. But you can’t win them all. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s 78-minute solo performance at the Joyce, Once, and yet another New Wavelet at B.A.M., Aterballetto’s all-Stravinsky evening, have reminded me of a basic truth: All too much of Read More
The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan’s work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea. When a door opens into his past-a glimpse of the Delvic Hotel in Read More
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña , by David Hajdu. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 328 pages, $25.
Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s , by Nick Bromell. The University of Chicago Press, 225 pages, $22.50.
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