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Leonard Cohen

Arts & Culture

The Decade in Arts & Culture

December 12, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From Leonard Cohen’s darker legacy to art’s obsession with dead young women, here are the culture conversations that helped define Canada

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Black and white photo of Leonard Cohen.
Arts & Culture

Leonard Cohen’s Afterlife

November 14, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Charles Foran

A posthumous collection, finished days before his death, reveals the artist at his most intimate

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Photograph of a Woman Looking at a Leonard Cohen Themed Magazine Spread
Arts & Culture

The Darker Side of Leonard Cohen

April 9, 2018August 13, 2019 - by Myra Bloom

How the myth of the male genius shields our cultural heroes from scrutiny

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Mike Jahn
Music

I Have No Idea of the Sound I’m Looking For

November 11, 2016November 19, 2019 - by Michael Harris

An Interview with Leonard Cohen in 1969

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Photograph by Sofía Lens
Music

Try to Say the Grace

November 10, 2016November 19, 2019 - by Mark Abley

Leonard Cohen passes away at eighty-two

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Illustration by Anita Kunz
January/February 2017 / Music

Last Rites

November 10, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Pico Iyer

Only Leonard Cohen could sing his own elegy

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Illustration of what appears to be a backside
July/August 2005 / Poetry

When I Went Out

July 7, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Leonard Cohen

A poem by Leonard Cohen

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