Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker
At eighty-two, the troubadour has another album coming. Like him, it is obsessed with mortality, God-infused, and funny.
Cohen fled London's rising damp after a dentist yanked his wisdom tooth. He asked a tanned bank teller where he'd been. Greece. Cohen bought an airline ticket. He would buy a whitewashed house on Hydra for $1,500, furnish it with "chairs that van Gogh painted," and begin his real work.