Tom Schnabel interviewed Cohen live on the radio. “I stayed up late the night before,” he later wrote, “preparing for my conversation with the gravelly voiced poet who always seemed to keep his knife ...

Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up— one of the leading rock journalists in the world— Sylvie Simms has interviewed and written about Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger, Tom Waits, Neil Young, ...

saw his future almost 40 years ago, and it fit him like a soft fedora or a famous blue raincoat. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Cohen, then 40, complained about "getting old. My nails are ...

A long-awaited biography of Leonard Cohen, a splendid new novel by Michael Chabon and a revealing history of the FBI in 1960s Berkeley top this month’s list of recent releases by Bay Area authors.

On December 8, Chrome Dreams will release “Hallelujah,” a new biography of Canadian songwriting legend Leonard Cohen, the first to be published since 1988. The book delves into Cohen’s storied career, ...

Sylvie Simmons’ wonderfully thorough new biography of Leonard Cohen, I’m Your Man, could be read as a tragic tale. Cohen always disliked the rigors of touring, but because his records were rarely ...

Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. It has become something of a late-autumn Montreal tradition, no less moving for its low-key vibe and ...

September would have been Leonard Cohen’s 90th birthday. So a biographical tome from a French university lecturer, who has written three dissertations and created a study course on the Canadian singer ...

In the introduction to “Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories: The Early Years,” Michael Posner explains that he first proposed the idea of an oral biography to the singer and poet in 2007. It would be “a ...

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer, songwriter, poet, novelist, and painter. His work mostly explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, ...