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This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Liberation Day by George Saunders and Our Share Of Night by Mariana Enriquez.

Mixing powerful French texts with a twang of American country music, Baptiste W. Hamon has been compared to Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nick Drake, Phil Ochs and even Leonard Cohen. He recently released a third album called “Jusqu'à la lumière”. He tells FRANCE 24’s Florence Villeminot about recording in Bristol with…

A fascinating collection of early fiction foreshadows motifs and concerns that Cohen the performer later mined across decades

A novella and short stories from the 1950s showcase Cohen’s fascinating self-fashioning, but also a taint of bitterness

Contributions from John Cale, Judy Collins and more illuminate the singer-songwriter’s art through his best-known song

Investors poured billions into buying rights, turning pop songs into a new asset class — but then the economy stalled

He has written duets for man and Muppet, parodied Morrissey in The Simpsons, and become Hollywood’s go-to for bringing ‘heart’ to the movies. Now he’s ready to see if people want to hear the guy behind the gags

The Greek island has attracted poets, writers and musicians for over 8o years, from Henry Miller to Leonard Cohen and Jeff Koons

Get ready to hear the Leonard Cohen classic “Hallelujah” sung a lot of times by a lot of people in the deep-dive documentary “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song.”

In an expansive new documentary, Don McLean talks about the much-discussed meaning of his enduring hit song

The Irish actor is compelling as a womanising professor who begins to realise his best days are over, with added Leonard Cohen