Bob Dylan has spent a lifetime concocting the mythology of Bob Dylan. Now the filmmaker Todd Haynes is adding another layer. In I’m Not There he splits Dylan into six different characters, played by six different actors. Haynes told Kurt it was ...

Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter was a teenager in Moscow, Idaho, when he discovered the album Nashville Skyline in his parents’ record collection. The song that hit him hard was “Girl from the North Country,” Dylan’s duet with Johnny Cash. But it’s “Po Boy,” off Dylan’s 2001 ...

Josh Ritter performs "Best for the Best" live in Studio 360.

For 10 years, the actor Scott Shepherd dreamed of playing Hamlet. He got his chance in a highly experimental “duet,” reciting Richard Burton’s lines, and moving Burton’s moves, while the 1964 film plays behind him. But he doesn’t like his co-star. Produced by ...

Science writer Jonah Lehrer is just 26, but he’s already worked as a line cook at Le Cirque and in the lab of a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. In Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Lehrer looks at the surprising ways artists like Paul Cezanne and Walt Whitman ...

Tea historian Jane Pettigrew explains why the world has never recovered from an American innovation. Produced by Deanna Kashani.