John Carvill

John Carvill is a UK-based freelance reviewer, and the Editor of oomska, online arts & pop culture magazine.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Bob Dylan’s ‘Good As I Been to You’ at 30
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Bob Dylan’s ‘Good As I Been to You’ at 30

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 / 13 January 2023

Good As I Been To You was warmly received by critics, but a Bob Dylan album of covers with a stripped-down, rough-edged acoustic aesthetic did not satisfy fans’ hunger for new Dylan material.

The Joke’s on You: Bob Dylan’s ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song’
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The Joke’s on You: Bob Dylan’s ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song’

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 / 15 November 2022

Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song is an awful book, awash with misogyny and crusty old man rants like a drunken, MAGA hat-wearing uncle.

Bob Dylan Would Dig Michael Gray’s ‘Outtakes’
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Bob Dylan Would Dig Michael Gray’s ‘Outtakes’

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 / 29 September 2021

Michael Gray is the Bob Dylan of Dylan studies, a man whose Dylan criticism has done more to augment and illuminate Dylan’s art than all of his rivals combined.

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Have a Little Faith in People: Woody Allen ‘Blue Jasmine’ and Returning to Form

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 / 7 February 2014
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The Defiance of Time in Dylan’s “Tangled Up in Blue”

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 / 5 May 2010
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Ian MacDonald Gets Down on the Beatles

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 / 23 November 2009
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Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Against the Day’ Appeals to Our Camaraderie

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 / 27 January 2008
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Celebrating Humphrey “Bogie” Bogart

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 / 17 September 2007
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Was Bob Dylan Really a ‘Wicked Messenger’ of the ’60s?

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 / 2 May 2007
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Rejects Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman

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 / 7 March 2007
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The Fuss About Thomas Pynchon

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 / 20 November 2006
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