Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar, lived with severe depression until she died from suicide at 30. “I think the actual experience of writing a poem is a magnificent one,” Plath says in the interview. She and her husband…
‘Silver Jew’: David Berman Plays Israel
A film by Michael Tully documenting two shows by the Jews in Tel Aviv and an afternoon in Jerusalem during their first ever tour. 15 years after the band’s inception, this tour is treated as the amazing and improbable event…
New Film on Leonard Cohen is Rich, Nuanced But Comes With Few ‘Words of Love’
By Gregory Crofton Leonard Cohen, the beloved poet and troubadour from Montreal, surely was a narcissist, but name a great artist who doesn’t carry at least a touch of self obsession? More interesting was Cohen’s struggle with depression, his heavy…