Leonard Cohen

Suzanne Vega's teenage obsessions: 'Taxi Driver captured something awful but made it beautiful'

In the first of a weekly series where film and music stars discuss their youthful fixations, the US singer recalls silly walks and Saturday Night Fever dance classes

Interview by Dave Simpson

03, Sep, 2020 @3:30 PM

Take this waltz: Christopher Bruce on a life in dance and his Leonard Cohen dream

The Rooster choreographer recalls the genius and cruelty of Marie Rambert and the demands on young dance talent today

Lyndsey Winship

29, Jul, 2020 @11:58 AM

George Alagiah: 'Steinbeck taught me the power of words'

The television presenter and author on Graham Greene, Germaine Greer and reading poetry during chemotherapy

George Alagiah

10, Jul, 2020 @9:00 AM

A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson review – free love with Leonard Cohen

‘Where would these male writers be without their ministering angels?’ A novel based around the arty 60s colony on a Greek island captures both the dream and the disappointment

Elizabeth Lowry

16, May, 2020 @6:30 AM

After the restlessness finally there's stillness: my last stage of coronavirus isolation | Brigid Delaney

I’ve been to monasteries and religious retreats seeking calmness. The pandemic is giving me the same experience at home

Brigid Delaney

30, Apr, 2020 @5:30 PM

Bohemian tragedy: Leonard Cohen and the curse of Hydra

Cohen was inspired by married writers George Johnston and Charmian Clift when he visited the Greek island of Hydra in 1960. But their golden age came at a price

Polly Samson

30, Mar, 2020 @9:00 AM

Julie Felix obituary

Folk singer whose TV appearances on The Frost Report in the 1960s made her a household name

Derek Schofield

24, Mar, 2020 @1:58 PM

Adam Cohen on Leonard: ‘It was daunting finishing my dad's last music'

Leonard Cohen’s final songs can now be heard on the album Thanks for the Dance. Here his son Adam talks about their emotionally complex relationship

Sean O’Hagan

24, Nov, 2019 @10:30 AM

Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance review – a sublime final statement

This posthumous album finds the poet and singer on reflective, insightful, deadpan form, ‘settling accounts of the soul’

Dave Simpson

22, Nov, 2019 @9:30 AM

TV tonight: the starry love story of Leonard Cohen and his muse

Dying only months apart from each other, this documentary unearths the complicated love affair between Marianne Ihlen and Cohen. Plus: it’s time for Strictly. Here’s what to watch this evening

Ammar Kalia, Ellen E Jones, Graeme Virtue, Hannah Verdier and Paul Howlett

28, Sep, 2019 @5:01 AM

Thanks for the Dance: posthumous Leonard Cohen album announced

Thanks for the Dance has been arranged by singer’s son Adam and will feature various collaborators and previously unheard material

Laura Snapes

20, Sep, 2019 @2:52 PM

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love – affecting, despite Nick Broomfield

Director Nick Broomfield tries to make it about him, but love wins out in his story of Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen

Wendy Ide

28, Jul, 2019 @7:00 AM

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