The Latest Breaking News from Bob Dylan

It was a particularly good year for excellent books and 10 is way too few. In order of authors’ names:

Bob Dylan, sing-songwriter and Nobel laureate, has spent a career confounding expectations. What, then, should one expect of his new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song? Firstly, “modern song” should read “American modern song”, since almost all of the 66 songs discussed by Dylan are American. And by “modern”, we…

Bob Dylan, sing-songwriter and Nobel laureate, has spent a career confounding expectations.

Many A-listers adopted new monikers before – or even once – they became famous

How does it feel?

They may have to sign thousands of books individually, but it seems writers wouldn’t dream of using a robot pen

An email from Bono

Fans were furious after discovering Bob Dylan, 81, had used an autopen to sign $599 special editions of his new book The Philosophy of Modern Song, which had been advertised as “hand-signed”

Dylan played four nights in London in October on back of The Philosophy of Modern Song book release

Labor passes its Respect@Work bill to address workplace culture and is set to pass the industrial relations bill after David Pocock gave his support

Musician says he had vertigo when he used autopen on books advertised as hand-signed