More in ‘Judy Garland’

A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, published this month by Nextbook Press, is an appreciation of the national songbook as the work of Jewish composers and lyricists. Author David Lehman picked his top ten favorite standards for Tablet Magazine. Here’s his playlist:
“The Lady is a Tramp,” music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart. ...

[D]oes it really matter? And who would it matter to?” Bob Dylan asks in a brief Q&A at the beginning of Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric, a new book juxtaposing 23 of his poetic meditations with photographs by Barry Feinstein (the project had been lost—in other words, flat-out forgotten—for more than 40 years). He’s referring to his own ...