Molly Rookwood

Dec 4, 2023 | atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Molly Rookwood

As Matthew R. Anderson suggests in the subtitle of Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul, the idea of a kinship between Leonard Cohen, raunchy Jewish poet, and the apostle Paul, follower of Jesus, seemed unlikely to me indeed. I began reading the book as an expert on neither man but knowing — as a Jewish woman in Canada in 2023 — significantly more about one than the other, and I was intrigued to see what Anderson would argue in this slim, colourful book.