Leonard Cohen, poet, musician, novelist, icon, died on November 7, 2016. Throughout his career, he investigated everything from love and loss, religion and history, politics, inheritance and sexual longing. His songs segue from sensual beauty to affirmation of the world’s delights to apocalyptic worry. 

As we celebrate his life, we take another look at this work, particularly his two novels, Beautiful Losers and The Favorite Game.