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Leonard Cohen 's celebrated hymn gets better and better. The singer is Kayla Rogers , 10, of Donaghadee (Northern Ireland).  Ka...

                                                                       DIEGO TUSON/AFP Click here for Suzanne , Bird on the Wire a...

Ma sœur et moi venons juste d’enterrer notre père à Montréal avec seulement la présence de la famille proche et de quelques amis. Il a é...

Cohen family plot at the Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery on Friday in Montreal.  (Giovanni Capriotti / for the Toronto Star) Cohen at ho...

Leonard Cohen, 1976, in France                                                            [photo Istvan Bajzat/Alliances] The Cohen ...

The holy man has just left us in painful solitude. Many years ago, in a Paris concert hall, I had the privilege of seeing blonde...

Leonard Cohen [1934-2016] We were waiting to say farewell, dear Leonard. We knew you were ready to leave. You left us so elegantl...

Browsing through old blog posts, I often come upon an unexpected gem. It’s a post entitled Freedom of speech , published on May 10, 2011. It...

Last Wednesday, on Leonard Cohen 's 82nd birthday, he announced the forthcoming arrival of a new album, You Want It Darker , produced by...

The Swedish lady Marianne Ihlen , muse of Leonard Cohen , passed away peacefully on 29 July 2016 at the age of 81.   Marianne and Coh...

Jeanne d'Arc . In English, Joan of Arc. Her family surname was d'Arc . And her given name was Jeanne (pronounced jun in French, l...

To encounter a dramatic new sense of these three simple words, "freedom of speech" , click this photo of Christopher Hitchens (su...

A few years ago, I was saddened to hear that one of my favorite singers, the Canadian poet Leonard Cohen , had apparently been fleeced finan...