This scrupulously reported book traces how one of the world’s largest companies “bound its future” to China. By 2015, Apple ...

Those works exemplified what Elie calls a “crypto-religious” trend in Western culture at the time — artists such as Leonard Cohen, Toni Morrison and Bob Dylan were concertedly focused on ...

Paul Elie’s new book ... “A cloak of crypto-religiosity.” Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows”? “A tutorial in crypto-religiosity.” Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation ...

as artists from Warhol to Basquiat to Haring and musicians from U2 to Madonna to Leonard Cohen began to produce a flood of what Elie terms “crypto-religious” art. Get Starting Point A guide ...

Leonard Cohen is one of the most easily recognized folk singer/songwriters of his generation. His work spanned decades and explored everything from love to loss to isolation to faith to mortality.

May), essayist Paul Elie looks at everything from Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” to Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and Prince’s ...

In 2022, Cohen’s children successfully sued to remove Robert Kory, the late singer’s manager, as trustee of Cohen’s estate. They alleged he seized control of the trust to “pilfer” Cohen ...

In 1964, Leonard Cohen wrote a letter to a friend explaining that he’d sold what he called his manuscript “junk” to the University of Toronto, who shelled out $3,850 for the collection.

In death, Leonard Cohen is having a rebirth. The legendary singer is being remembered by older and younger generations alike for his timeless music. Special correspondent Mike Cerre went to the ...

In death, Leonard Cohen is having a rebirth. The legendary singer is being remembered by older and younger generations alike for his timeless music. Special correspondent Mike Cerre went to the ...

More striking, though, was the depth of feeling. Leonard Cohen, master of a cool, ironic, deadpan remove, had come to signify something new that mystified the performers themselves. “I saw ...