The King review - a wild ride through doomed America in Elvis Presley's car
The story of the King’s old Rolls Royce soon gives way to an exploration of fame, power, race and everything else in Eugene Jarecki’s dizzying documentary
October 2014
The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs review – erudite, passionate and magnificently subjective
Greil Marcus leads us on a playful, idiosyncratic journey down the wormholes and back alleys of rock, pop and soul, writes Kitty Empire
September 2013
On my radar
On my radar: Dave Stewart's cultural highlights
The musician and producer talks to Ben Marshall about Greil Marcus's writing, the wonder of Anthony Bourdain and the web's best arts magazine
August 2013
Bob Dylan: facing the music
Bob Dylan once dismissed his 1970 album Self Portrait as a joke. But newly released recordings from that era suggest that something serious was going on in the singer's mind. By John Harris
February 2012
A life in ...
Greil Marcus: a life in writing
'I had an overwhelming urge to express the joy, the delirium, I felt listening to the radio and going to shows by the Stones and Dylan'
January 2012
The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years by Greil Marcus – review
The Doors by Greil Marcus – review
August 2011
The Beach Beneath the Street by McKenzie Wark – review
Jonathan Derbyshire on the life and times of the Situationist International
May 2011
Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus – review
Mark Ford finds Greil Marcus's collection of pieces on Dylan both poetic and testy
July 2010
Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus offers a new perspective on a star, says Rosie Swash
June 2010
Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus
Marcus Greil's inquiry into the genius of Van Morrison occasionally gets lost in the poetry, writes Kevin Mitchell
January 2010
A New Literary History of America Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
This vast collection ranges from the mediocre to the magnificent, says Adam Mars-Jones
December 2009
2009 in review
Best Music Writing 2009; edited by Greil Marcus
Gareth Grundy enjoys a compendium of the year's best rock journalism
June 2009
Don't look back
Having spent 20 years as a pop journalist, John Harris asks whether music writing has lost its way
August 2007
Dispatches from the city upon a hill
Nicholas Lezard marvels at the extraordinary critical insight of Greil Marcus in his exposition of American identity, The Shape of Things to Come.
September 2006
What really makes Uncle Sam tick
Greil Marcus's analysis of the US, The Shape of Things to Come, is dazzling and wise, says Peter Preston.
July 2006
These walls thy sphere
Jonathan Beckman on My Lives by Edmund White | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday | Like a Rolling Stone by Greil Marcus | February House by Sherill Tippins | Gannibal by Hugh Barnes | 1966 and All That by Craig Brown
May 2005
The song that got away
Greil Marcus's sweeping generalisations in Like a Rolling Stone are a poor substitute for precise analysis, says Mike Marqusee.
April 2005
Confused by Dylan? You will be
Greil Marcus is inspiring and baffling in his exploration of Bob Dylan's great song, Like a Rolling Stone, says Sean O'Hagan.
