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1950s & 1960s
November 1956,  A Review of Let Us Compare Mythologies
	by Allan Donaldson, The Fiddlehead.  Reprinted in Leonard Cohen: The Artist & His Critics, edited by Michael Gnarowski (1976).
March 1957, Turning New Leaves by Milton Wilson,
	The Canadian Forum. Reprinted in Leonard Cohen: The Artist & His Critics, edited by Michael Gnarowski (1976) - a review of Let Us Compare Mythologies.
Autumn 1961, The Lean and the Luscious by David Bromige,
	Canadian Literature.  Reprinted in Leonard Cohen: The Artist & His Critics, edited by Michael Gnarowski (1976) - a review of The Spice-Box of Earth.
Winter 1964, A Zest for Life by Joan Irwin, The Tamarack
	Review - a review of The Favourite Game.
November 1964, Blossom Show by Ed Kleiman, Alphabet.
	Reprinted in Leonard Cohen: The Artist & His Critics, edited by Michael Gnarowski (1976) - a review of The Favourite Game.
July 1965, Letters in Canada: 1964, Poetry by Milton
	Wilson, University of Toronto Quarterly. Reprinted in Leonard Cohen: The Artist & His Critics, edited by Michael Gnarowski (1976) - a review of Flowers for Hitler.
Winter 1965, Leonard Cohen: A Personal Look
	by A.W. Purdy, Canadian Literature.
Summer 1966, Beautiful Beginners by Dennis Duffy,
	The Tamarack Review - a review of Beautiful Losers.
October 1, 1966, Is the World (or Anybody) Ready
	for Leonard Cohen? by Jon Ruddy, MACLEAN'S.
February 3, 1967, After the Wipe-Out, a Renewal by
	Sandra Diwa, The Ubyssey.
August/September 1967, Leonard Cohen...The Man
	by Ellen Sander (Email: databirds@aol.com), Sing Out!
August/September 1967, Leonard Cohen...His Songs
	by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sing Out!
Autumn 1967, The Phenomenon of Leonard Cohen by
	Desmond Pacey, Canadian Literature.  Reprinted in Leonard Cohen: The Artist & His Critics, edited by Michael Gnarowski (1976).
December 28, 1967, Beautiful Creep by Richard Goldstein,
	Village Voice, reprinted in Goldstein's Greatest Hits: A Book Mostly about Rock 'n' Roll.
March 9, 1968, Unique Interpreters of Pop: Leonard Cohen
	by Jacoba Atlas, The Beat.
November 1968, Leonard Cohen:  Renaissance Mensch,
	Playboy.
June 1969, Leonard Cohen: The Poet as Hero,
	His Songs & His Followers by Jack Batten, Saturday Night.
June 1969, Leonard Cohen: The Poet as Hero,
	Cohen Remembered by Don Owen, Saturday Night.
June 10, 1969, Songs Sacred and Profane by Ira Mothner,
	Look.
Winter 1969, An Interview with Leonard Cohen by Michael
	Harris, Duel.
September 1969, Can. Pop: Leonard Cohen by Jack Batten,
	Chatelaine.

1970s
May 1970 (approx.), Leonard Cohen: Zooey Glass in Europe
	by Burr Snider, Gypsy.  Reprinted in Leonard Cohen: The Artist & His Critics, edited by Michael Gnarowski (1976).
October 30 1970 (concert date), 1970 Concert Review
	by Joe Way, written especially for these pages.
October 31, 1970, Leonard Cohen Here - Poet, Artist Entertains
	at Homecoming Show by Dave Wagner, The Capital Times.
October 31, 1970, Performer's Indifference Matches His
	Audience's by Alan J. Borsuk, The State Journal.
November 3, 1970, Cohen at Homecoming by David Smith,
	Badger Herald.
February 4, 1971, Ladies & Gents, Leonard Cohen by
	Jack Hafferkamp, Rolling Stone.
January 3, 1972, Leonard Cohen Talks by Billy Walker,
	Rock.
June 1972, Famous Last Words from Leonard Cohen
	by Paul Saltzman, Maclean's.
December 30, 1972, The Strange, Sad and Beautiful World of
	Leonard Cohen by Andrew Furnival, Petticoat.
December 1973, Leonard Cohen by Pat Harbron,
	Beetle.
1974, Beautiful Losers: Mohawk Myth and Jesuit Legend
	by Leslie Monkman, Journal of Canadian Fiction.
1974, Interview with Leonard Cohen by Jordi
	Sierra I Fabra, from the book Leonard Cohen by Alberto Manzano, 1978.
Spring 1974, Cohen's Women by Tom Wayman,
	Canadian Literature, No. 60.
October 1974, September 15th 1974 by Robin Pike,
	ZigZag.
1975, Loners and Other Strangers by Paul Nelson,
	Rolling Stone. Reprinted in the New Skin for the Old Ceremony Song Book, published by Amsco Music Publishing Company, 1975.
March 1975, Leonard Cohen: The Romantic in a Ragpicker's
	Trade by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy.
1976, Leonard Cohen: The Artist & His Critics,
	edited by Michael Gnarowski.  Includes the following articles featured in these pages: * see below.
February 1977, The Obscure Case of Leonard Cohen and
	The Mysterious Mr. M. by Bruce Pollock, After Dark.
January 1978, What Happened When Phil Spector
	Met Leonard Cohen by Harvey Kubernik, The Los Angeles Phonograph.
January 26, 1978, Leonard Cohen Obscured...
	A Haunting by Spector by Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone.
February 9, 1978, Leonard Cohen's Doo-Wop Nightmare
	by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone.

1980s
March 1980, ABC Australia Radio (transcript of
	radio program).
August/September 1983, Conversations from a Room by Tom
	Chaffin, Canadian Forum.
Spring 1985, Leonard Cohen by Kristine McKenna,
	Another Room Magazine.
July 11, 1985, Leonard Cohen in Concert
	Televisión Española S.A. (TVE2) (transcript of television program).
March 12, 1987, Jenny Sings Lenny by Steve Pond, Rolling
	Stone.
March 14, 1987, Jenny Sings Lenny by Alan Jackson
	(article on Jennifer Warnes) and by Biba Kopf (article on Leonard Cohen), New Musical Express.
September 1987, Songs and Thoughts of Leonard Cohen
	by Robert O'Brian, RockBill.
1988, Stolen Moments: Leonard Cohen by Tom Schnabel,
	from the book Stolen Moments, Acrobat Books.
1988, Leonard Cohen: A Portrait in First Person,
	CBC broadcast (transcript of television program).
1988, Len by Jonh Wilde, Blitz.
February 1988, Cohen's Way by Mat Snow, The Guardian.
June 18, 1988, As a New Generation Discovers
	Leonard Cohen's Dark Humour, Kris Kirk Ruffles the Great Man's Back Pages by Kris Kirk, Poetry Commotion.
July 1988, Leonard Cohen's Nervous Breakthrough
	by Mark Rowland, Musician.
November 7, 1988 (date of concert), Gifts of Light from
	The Warrior of Love by David Whiteis (originally appeared in the Chicago Reader, revised for  these pages).

1990s
October 3, 1991, Flattery Most Sincere by Bruce Dessau,
	The Guardian.
1992, Comme Un Guerrier (Translated: Come on Gorilla)
	by Christian Fevret, Throat Culture, originally published in Les Inrockuptibles and translated by Sophie Miller.
1992, Leonard Cohen and the Death of Cool by David
	Sprague, Your Flesh.
1992, Leonard Cohen's The Future, Interview by
	Bob Mackowitz, transcript of a radio special produced by Interviews Unlimited for Sony Music.
November 19, 1992, Leonard Cohen by Barbara Gowdy,
	One on One: The Imprint Interviews, edited by Leanna Crouch, 1994.
November 19, 1992, Cohen's Future Is Now by Jim Slotek,
	Toronto Sun.
November 19, 1992, Cohen Grows into The Future Gracefully,
	and with a Grin by Peter Howell, Toronto Star.
November 20, 1992, The Ever-Dapper Leonard, Ottawa Sun.
November 22, 1992, The Loneliness of The Long-Suffering
	Folkie by Wayne Robins, Newsday - Long Island.
November 22, 1992, Growing Old Passionately by Alan
	Jackson, Observer.
November 22, 1992, I Have Heard The Future --
	and It Works by Tim de Lisle, The Independent.
November 29, 1992, Leonard Cohen, the Lord Byron
	of Rock-and-Roll by Karen Schoemer, The New York Times. (Another version of this article was reprinted in the Ann Arbor News, December 2, 1992, under the title "Lord Byron of Rock Makes Volvo Songs" and a shorter version of this article appeared in the Montreal Gazette, November 28, 1992, entitled "Icon of '60s Folkies, Cohen Now Hero of Musical Elite".)
November 27, 1992, Party Time? Leonard Cohen Gets
	Caught with a Cockeyed Grin by Charles Taylor, The Boston Phoenix.
November 27, 1992, God and Women: Leonard Cohen
	Wants the Wall Back by Mark Schone, L.A. Weekly.
November 28, 1992, Future Shocking by Edwin Pouncey,
	New Musical Express.
November 30, 1992, Where the Past Meets the Future
	by Chris Dafoe, Toronto Globe & Mail.
December 1992, Le Cercle de Minuit, interviewed by
	Michel Field,  France 2 broadcast (transcript of television program).
December 1992, Heavy Cohen by Cliff Jones,
	Rock CD.
December 7, 1992, Life of a Lady's Man
	by Brian D. Johnson, Maclean's.
December 11, 1992, Cohen Heads Back to The Future
	by Spencer Bright, Daily Mail (London).
December 12, 1992, Leonard Cohen Shows He's Still
	Full of Fire by Rob Wilson, The Financial Post (Toronto).
December 12, 1992, Rebirth of a Ladies' Man
	by Brendan Kelly, The Financial Post (Toronto).
1993, The D-Files, interview by David Fanning, Ireland
	(transcript of radio program).
January 1993, Sincerely, L. Cohen by Brian Cullman,
	Details for Men.
January 4, 1993, Painstaking Effort Pays Off in Leonard
	Cohen's 'Future' by Tom Moon, Philadelphia Inquirer. (A slightly modified version appeared in the Chicago Tribune, December 6, 1992, under the title "Words Don't Come Easy" and The Ottawa Citizen, December 13, 1992, under the title "Cohen Labors Over Creative Assignments.")
January 8, 1993, 7 Reasons Leonard Cohen Is the Next-Best
	Thing to God by David Browne, Entertainment Weekly.
January 9, 1993, Hello! I Must Be Cohen by Gavin Martin,
	New Musical Express.
January 21, 1993, No Mercy -- Leonard Cohen's
	Tales from the Dark Side by Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone.
January 30, 1993, Through the Gloom: Cohen Finds a
	Ray of Hope by Ed Bumgardner, Daily.
February 1993, Leonard Cohen...What's Your Problem?
	Doom and Gloom by Patrick Humphries, VOX.
February 1993, La Brea Blues by Steve Pond,
	L.A. Style.
February 10, 1993, from the Wall Street Journal,
	by Jim Fusilli ("On Disk: The True Legacy of Fleetwood Mac").
February 19, 1993, The Stranger Music of Leonard Cohen
	by William Ruhlmann, Goldmine.
March 1993, Growing Old Disgracefully by Ian Pearson,
	Saturday Night.
April 1993, Leonard Cohen: Inside the Tower of Song
	by Paul Zollo, SongTalk.
April 8, 1993, Leonard Cohen: Pondering His Past and
	'The Future' by Scott Crawford, Intermission, weekly entertainment section of the Stanford Daily newspaper (Stanford University).
April 26, 1993, The Joking Troubadour of Gloom
	by Tim Rostron, The Daily Telegraph.
May 13, 1993, Live: When the Cohen Gets Tough:
	Leonard Cohen, the Existential Serenader, Is Still Glad to Be Glum by Andy Gill, Independent.
May 14, 1993, Brilliantly Miserable, As Ever
	by Helen Jacobus, Jewish Chronicle.
May 16, 1993, from The Independent on Sunday,
	by Ben Thompson ("Back to Life with a Blast from the Rocket Man").
May 16, 1993, Cohen Round Again by Val Hennessy,
	Sunday Express.
June 1993, Leonard Cohen at the Albert Hall 1993:
	A Personal Account by Richard Cooper (especially written for these pages).
June 1993, Later With Jools Holland, interview
	by Jools Holland, BBC-TV (a transcript of a television program).
June 16, 1993, The Somber Rituals of Leonard Cohen
	by Jon Pareles, New York Times.
June 21, 1993, First, He's a Poet by Rob Hubbard,
	Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minnesota.
July 1993, The Determinator, Questions Posed by Fans,
	Details.
July 26, 1993, The Prince of Bummers by Leon Wieseltier,
	New Yorker.
August 27, 1993, The Prophet of Love Looks into the
	Abyss: A Conversation with Leonard Cohen by Thom Jurek, Los Angeles Reader.
August/September 1993, Maverick Spirit: Leonard Cohen
	by Jim O'Brien, B-Side Magazine.
November 1993, Leonard Cohen by Dev Sherlock, Musician.
December 12, 1993, An Interview with Leonard Cohen
	by Richard Guilliatt, The Sunday Times Magazine
	(London).
1994, Leonard Cohen in Yakety Yak by Scott Cohen.
September 1994, Q Questionnaire - Leonard Cohen, Q.
October 1, 1995, My Life without Leonard Cohen
	by Ruth R. Wisse, Commentary.
November 1995, Leonard Cohen, interviewed by Anjelica
	Huston, Interview.
1997, A Life in the Day of Leonard Cohen by Nigel
	Williamson, The Sunday Times Magazine (London).
October 12, 1997, A Light-Hearted Apocalypse and
	The Best of the New 'Best Of' by Tim de Lisle, Independent on Sunday.
December 1998, Leonard Cohen: The Future
	by David Whiteis (originally appeared in the Chicago Reader, late 1992, revised for these pages).
December 1998, It Seems So Long Ago:
	Random Memories & Vignettes of Leonard In Person by David Whiteis (written for these pages).
January 13-26, 1999, A Tribute to Leonard Cohen
	by Bill Van Dyk, First Avenue In-House Magazine.

2000s
February 8, 2000, A Short Walk in Leonard Cohen's
	Westmount by T.F. Rigelhof, an excerpt from his book This Is Our Writing.
October 2000, The Fiction of Leonard Cohen
	by T.F. Rigelhof, a chapter from his book This Is Our Writing.
April 16, 2001, Cohen: New Spin from an Old Ceremony
	by I-Huei Go, New York Observer.
June 29, 2001, An Invincible Defeat by Albert Labbouz,
	from Patrice Clos' French Leonard Cohen site.
July 5, 2001, Leonard Cohen Returns to the Present with
	Ten New Songs, Press Agency EFE, El Mundo (from www.10newsongs.com).
July 5, 2001, Leonard Cohen in Madrid Yesterday to Present
	Some of His "New Songs" by Antonio Rojas, ABC (from www.10newsongs.com).
July 6, 2001, The Return of the Dalai Cohen: The Canadian
	Singer to Release Ten New Songs in October by Juan Carlos Merino, La Vanguardia (from www.10newsongs.com).
August 26, 2001, Songs to Remember by Javier Laborda,
	Magazine, Sunday Supplement to La Vanguardia, La Razón, and others (from www.10newsongs.com).
September 1, 2001, State of Grace by Doug Saunders,
	Globe and Mail (from www.10newsongs.com).
September 15, 2001, A Happy Man by Mireille Silcott,
	Saturday Night (from www.10newsongs.com).
September 15, 2001, An Intimate Conversation with...
	Leonard Cohen by Elena Pita, Magazine, Sunday supplement to El Mundo (from www.10newsongs.com).
October 2001, Cohen on Wry by Michael Krugman,
	Flaunt (from www.10newsongs.com).
October 11, 2001, The California Girl and the Ladies' Man
	by Doug Saunders, Globe & Mail (from www.10newsongs.com).
October 13, 2001, Love's Hard Man by Alan Franks,
	The Times Magazine (UK) (from www.10newsongs.com).
October 28, 2001, Leonard Cohen: Down from the Mountain,
	Singing with More Serenity by Ann Powers, New York Times (from www.10newsongs.com).
November 2001, Leonard Cohen: Constant Earth,
	Wind and Fire by Jennie Punter, Flare (from www.10newsongs.com).
November 2001, Songs of a Poet by Steve Matteo,
	Inside Connection (from www.10newsongs.com).
November 2001, Exile on Main Street by Brett Grainger,
	Elm Street (from www.10newsongs.com).
November 2001, The Prince of Prurience and Loss
	by John Leland, GQ (from www.10newsongs.com).
November 2001, Happy at Last: The Poet Returns from
	His Zen Retreat with a New Album and a Sunnier Disposition by J. Poet, Pulse (from www.10newsongs.com).
November 18, 2001, Leonard Cohen's Unlikely Debt
	to a Famous Green Ogre by Steven Rosen, The Denver Post.
February 2002, Leonard Cohen: New Songs, New Approach
	by Eric Rudolph, Mix (from www.10newsongs.com).
February 2002, Ten New Songs by Gökalp Baykal,
	Roll Magazine (from www.10newsongs.com).
March 2002, Brother of Mercy by Mikal Gilmore,
	Spin (from www.10newsongs.com).
April 2002, Leonard the Versifier by Sylvie Simmons,
	MOJO.
January 17, 2003, Songwriter Leonard Cohen Awarded
	Canada's Top Honor, Reuters news service, Yahoo! News.
September 10, 2003, Photographs of Leonard and family
	taken November, 2002, by Anjani and kindly provided by Esther Cohen.
September 2004, An Incomparable Novel by J. Kelly Nestruck,
	National Post.
September 2004, Cohen between the Covers by Aaron Wherry,
	National Post.
October 6, 2004, Cohen: 'Arguably Montreal's
	Most Famous Jew' by Michael Regenstreif, Canadian Jewish News.
November/December 2004, Pop Icon, Leonard Cohen
	Turns 70 by Mark Finkelstein, Des Moines Jewish News.
January 9, 2005, One Haunting Ballad Has Been the
	Soundtrack to Many Lives Recently. But Why? by Bryan Appleyard, UK Sunday Times.
April 15, 2005, Macklam/Feldman Management To
	Represent Leonard Cohen, Top40-Charts.com.
November 16, 2005, Cohen, Murray to Join Songwriters
	Hall of Fame, CBC.ca.
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*  The following articles featured in these pages are taken from the book Leonard Cohen: The Artist & His Critics, edited by Michael Gnarowski, 1976: A Review of Let Us Compare Mythologies by Allan Donaldson, The Fiddlehead, November, 1956; Turning New Leaves by Milton Wilson, The Canadian Forum, March, 1957;  The Lean and the Luscious by David Bromige, Canadian Literature, Autumn 1961; Blossom Show by Ed Kleiman, Alphabet, November, 1964; The Phenomenon of Leonard Cohen by Desmond Pacey, Canadian Literature, Autumn 1967; Leonard Cohen: Zooey Glass in Europe by Burr Snider, Gypsy.

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