The Extraordinary Life of Leonard Cohen
8 min readJun 9, 2024
This article was first published in Dumbo Feather magazine in 2017
In the last days of his life, Leonard Cohen was still singing. His body ravaged by cancer, his spine riven with compression fractures, he recorded his final album You Want It Darker from an orthopaedic medical chair at home, in tremendous physical pain. Still, at times, filled with joy, he’d overcome his pain to rise from the…
