Leonard Cohen and his muse Marianne Ihlen were close in life and in death — in fact, they died just months apart from each other, and the “So Long, Marianne” singer-songwriter said goodbye through a ...

For the past 25 years I've had this notion that on every successive Leonard Cohen record his voice would get deeper and deeper until one day he'd put out an album so subsonic that you'd just feel it, ...

“When I met Rebecca ,” Leonard Cohen told Pico Mayer in 1998, “all kinds of thoughts came into my mind, as how could they not when faced with a woman of such beauty?” Cohen and De Mornay met around ...

Jan Christian Mollestad read Leonard Cohen’s farewell letter to Marianne Ihlen before she died. “Well, Marianne, it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart, and ...

This story originally appeared in SPIN’s March 2002 issue. In honor of Cohen’s posthumous album Thanks for the Dance, we’ve republished it below. Then he simply walked away. He left behind his ...

The late Leonard Cohen could certainly be a formidable performer, but he endures primarily because of his songs - richly poetic, nuanced and evocative pieces of aural literature composed with enough ...

The 82-year-old songwriter mixes serious contemplation with mordant humor on his new album. Critic Ken Tucker says You Want It Darker features some of Cohen's simplest, most effective lyrics. This is ...

Leonard Cohen was deep in his career when he finally finished “Hallelujah.” Well, the first version of “Hallelujah” — there would be many, many versions when all was said and done. He’d toiled on the ...

Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War will be turned into a new limited TV drama, Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai, Variety reports. The new show is based on journalist ...

On his signature classic, “Hallelujah,” Leonard Cohen sang about meeting “the Lord of Song.” But on the title track of his new LP, the third in a late-game rally that’s been as startlingly brilliant ...

Poet, novelist and musical cult figure Leonard Cohen passed away on Thursday at age 82. Not a great singer, Cohen was a reluctant performer and an unlikely musical star. But the eloquence and ...