Bob Dylan

“Bob Dylan was not only prolific, the work was staggeringly timeless and relevant. And his way of writing means the work still speaks to us. It’s not dated. It’s not lost in another time,” says director James Mangold, as we chat about Dylan’s seismic impact on the world, revisit his back catalogue, and go behind-the-scenes of new biopic A Complete Unknown, starring an Oscar-nominated Timothée Chalamet as the young folk hero.

More highlights in this edition:

• Romance fiction used to be a guilty pleasure for readers and writers, but no more! Authors and agents reveal the steamy details of the genre’s rapid rise, with sales up 50 per cent since the pandemic.
• Bestselling Aussie author Di Morrissey shares her many loves in a Letter to My Younger Self: her community, her late husband and the books she never thought she’d write.
• Lucy Liu reveals why an intimate family conversation can be more terrifying than a ghost story, as she takes on the supernatural in Steven Soderbergh’s new film Presence.
• Jessica Prescott serves up a summery recipe for Tomato Salad With Fried Capers and Pine Nuts, plus her creamy GOAT Dressing, in Tastes Like Home.
• And in Ozzities, we take a Valentine’s Day voyage to Picnic at Hanging Rock: the book, the movie, the myth that countless Aussies believe actually happened.