The New Issue of Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan's America

It's a land of Walt Whitman and Chuck Berry, of border towns and murder ballads — and America's greatest songwriter may be the last man living there. For the new issue of Rolling Stone on newsstands today, historian and professor Douglas Brinkley followed Bob Dylan from Paris to Amsterdam as the Midwest's most famous son held court on American icons like Elvis Presley, Walt Whitman, Chuck Berry and Carl Sandburg.

Dylan also opened up about his partnership with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who contributed to Dylan's new Together Through Life and mused on playing with the guitarist Mike Bloomfield.

Rolling Stone also takes a look back at the magazine's long history with Dylan in a gallery of his RS covers (he appeared on his first in 1968), and explores the singer's non-musical work in a gallery of his paintings, which have been displayed in galleries worldwide. Plus, read David Fricke's review of Together Through Life.

Also in this issue:

• Sasha Grey: The Dirtiest Girl in the World

• Mike Tyson Reveals the Only Thing That Truly Scares Him

• Meet the Chess Masters Behind Obama's National Security

• Review: Green Day Go Bigger on 21st Century Breakdown

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  MUSIC Neil Young & Crazy Horse to Make Live Return
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  MOVIES & TV On the Cover: Inside 'The Voice'
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  POLITICS One Town's War on Gay Teens
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  VIDEOS RS Live: Craig Finn Plays Acoustic