To paraphrase a saying attributed to Buddha, when the student is ready, the Leonard Cohen song will appear. Philosopher king and ladies’ man, poet and ordained Buddhist monk, aesthete and pilgrim — in ...

Inspired in part by all the Jewish artists on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, the Forward decided it was time to rank the best Jewish pop songs of all time. You can find the whole list ...

It’s not every day you hear Abraham’s Hebrew words to God while watching TV — particularly not after sequences where waifish movie stars commit grisly murders. And yet, “You Want It Darker,” the ...

The new documentary HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG is a double biography of sorts, of beloved Canadian-Jewish songwriter/singer Leonard Cohen, who has had a cult-like following, ...

Now that rock music is certifiably dead, we can pick through its remains and figure out what mattered. In the 1960s, Canadian poet Leonard Cohen emerged as one of the great lyricists of the rock and ...

Leonard Cohen’s final album, “You Want It Darker,” is icicles bathed in moonlight, a breathtakingly beautiful album that’s as painful as it is compelling. Mind, this is a normal state of affairs for a ...

In the new movie Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song, the singer-songwriter - in an archival interview - jokes that his posthumous career will be larger than the one he had when he was alive.

“When Dylan emerged, he blew everyone’s mind,” said Allen Ginsberg. “Everybody except Leonard Cohen, that is.” Ginsberg was right, of course. Even before Bob Dylan transformed modern songwriting with ...

Leonard Cohen is the definition of a songwriter’s songwriter, the kind of artist you’d seldom hear on the radio, but was revered by countless musicians as one of the greatest lyricists in the world.

8th January 1980: Solemn Canadian folk pop singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen shares a joke and smokes a cigarette. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) To paraphrase a saying attributed to Buddha, ...