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  • Monday, 29 June, 2020
    Residential
    Fantasy homes: a seaside sanctuary inspired by Tove Jansson

    A writer’s Scandinavian search for swims, solitude and schnapps

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
    Music
    How Kiss became rock’s greatest capitalists

    The megashow masters on five decades of giving their fans crazy nights — while filling their own coffers

  • Thursday, 25 April, 2019
    Music
    Leonard Cohen at New York’s Jewish Museum is an engrossing but often vexing hagiography

    ‘A Crack in Everything’ is less about the artist than the adoration he inspires

  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Justice League — steroidal superhero romp

    Zack Snyder’s DC Comics adaptation is at times barely coherent

  • Monday, 30 October, 2017
    ReviewLife of a Song
    ‘Greensleeves’ — an irresistible earworm, from Henry VIII to Elvis

    Popular with musicians, it was recently voted the most annoying song played to callers on hold

  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The National, Hammersmith Apollo — out-there antics and a band at the top of their game

    Focused musicianship was compromised by attention-grabbing histrionics from frontman Matt Berninger

  • Sunday, 22 January, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Margo Price, Islington Assembly Hall, London — ‘Brazen resilience’

    The Nashville singer’s songs document her struggles and tribulations

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2017
    Music
    Vinyl forecast to ebb after hitting 2017 high note

    Signs of mainstream consumer interest in physical records waning, says Deloitte

  • Friday, 18 November, 2016
    Life & Arts
    ‘There Are Some Men’, by Leonard Cohen

    From his 1961 collection ‘The Spice-Box of Earth’

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2016
    Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
    Politeness is the best form of resistance

    Courtesy insists we treat each other kindly when confronted with spite and bile

  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
    The FT ViewThe FT View
    Leonard Cohen: A crack in everything is how the light gets in

    So long to a poet and artist for a corrupt and beautiful world

  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
    ObituaryLife & Arts
    Leonard Cohen: an appreciation

    The FT’s pop critic hails an artist who handled dark themes yet resisted despondency

  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
    Life & Arts14 min
    Leonard Cohen remembered

    Facebook Live discussion of the singer

  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
    ReviewLife of a Song
    The Life of a Song: ‘Hallelujah’

    How Leonard Cohen’s track became one of music’s most widely covered songs

  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
    ObituaryLife & Arts
    Leonard Cohen, singer, songwriter, novelist and poet, 1934-2016

    Artist with reputation for bleakness whose work centred on love, death and religion

  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
    ObituaryObituary
    Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen dies aged 82
  • Friday, 21 October, 2016
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker — review

    The album’s graceful blend of soul, doo-wop and European folk traditions resists defeat

  • Saturday, 19 March, 2016
    Jurek Martin
    The cloud of violence hanging over Trump breaks into a downpour

    The establishment alone can’t stop him — but can expose his business practices and policy proposals

  • Monday, 31 August, 2015
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts

    Nearly two dozen different exhibitions fill the museum’s galleries, a superabundance of art

  • Friday, 14 August, 2015
    Life & Arts
    The List: Four surprising musical adventures

    Similar to Laibach’s upcoming concerts in North Korea, here are four surprising authoritarian entanglements

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Leonard Cohen: Can’t Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour — review

    Recorded during the singer’s ‘Old Ideas’ world tour, the album includes jaunty music with Spanish guitar and R&B organ

  • Friday, 13 February, 2015
    Life of a Song
    The Life of a Song: ‘Always On My Mind’

    Wayne Carson’s song has survived the process of being covered in different genres — country, power-balladry, electropop

  • Friday, 19 September, 2014
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Leonard Cohen: Popular Problems – review

    The pace is slow, but the songs aren’t somnolent as the singer calmly negotiates themes of violence, love and religion

  • Friday, 9 August, 2013
    FT Magazine
    Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson: a special relationship

    Ever since Cohen hired Robinson as a backing singer 34 years ago, their work has been entwined. Philippe Sands talks to her about collaboration, inspiration and how the songwriting happens

  • Friday, 27 January, 2012
    Global financial crisis
    Bow down before the sage from Mt Baldy

    Leonard Cohen is the post-meltdown messiah, writes Gautam Malkani

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