Listening to Songs of Leonard Cohen: singing sadness to sadness in these anxious times

"In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace
or perspective during this pandemic."
If anyone can express the particularities of distress, it is surely the artists; and they
are surely needed at times like the present – times when uncertainty, anxiety and, for
too many people, bitter loss are the order of the day.