“The discovery last week (first reported on the front page of The Wall Street Journal) that Mr. Dylan may have lifted as many as a dozen lines for his remarkable 2001 album, ‘Love & Theft,’ from Japanese writer Junichi Saga, and his 1989 book ‘Confessions of a Yakuza,’ is a nonstory. The singer, as anyone with even a passing interest in pop music and American culture of the last 40 years knows, is both playful musical archaeologist and sly trickster – a man of many masks.”