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In the early 1980s, Leonard Cohen sat on the floor of a New York hotel room, wearing only his underwear and remembered “banging my head on the floor and saying, ‘I can’t finish this song.'” He had been working on it for years. Cohen, who died Thursday...

The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" by Alan Light is 'a fascinating account of the making, remaking, and unlikely popularizing of one of the most played and recorded rock songs in history—Leonard...

Malcolm Gladwell, who recently wrapped the first season of his podcast Revisionist History, has been on a roll lately. Not a particularly endearing one, though. I’ve been trying to locate his nadir, but it’s not easy with so many options to choose from...

Leonard Cohen’s ballad “Hallelujah” has become so inescapable that the songwriter once asked for a break from his own track. “I think it’s a good song, but too many people sing it,” he told the Guardian in 2009, agreeing with a critic who asked for ...

By Brian Ives I discovered Leonard Cohen when I was in college. It was through the 1991 tribute album, I’m Your Fan, which featured a cover of “First We Take Manhattan” by R.E.M., back when R.E.M.’s stamp of approval meant everything. The rest of the...