Leonard Cohen

The word on Leonard Cohen’s current tour has been fluctuating somewhere between serene joy and utter breathlessness, which shouldn’t be surprising for an artist followed with such zeal. From the early folk masterpieces he made in the ’60s to his later futuristic cabaret (not to mention his novels, which have been more than well-received), Cohen remains arguably our most literary songwriter. And his mystique has only grown in the wake of Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, a 2005 documentary that worked to survey Cohen’s life and work anew.