“I bet on him as on a racehorse, certain that he would become the guardian truth-teller of my generation.” (1995)
Read more on Commentary: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/my-life-without-leonard-cohen/
My Life Without Leonard Cohen https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2014/09/my-life-without-leonard-cohen/
About the author: Ruth R. Wisse is professor emerita of Yiddish and comparative literatures at Harvard and a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah. Her memoir Free as a Jew: a Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, chapters of which appeared in Mosaic in somewhat different form, is out from Wicked Son Press.