“[This] is not just a star-struck hagiography of Leonard. It is part memoir, part travelogue, part meditation, part potpourri. It is also, to a large extent, a conversation between Cohen and the reader. He gushes, leaps, stops and ponders, dances on and pins us back with his glittering eye. Highly opinionated, he always has a strong view on everything, but particularly music. His views can be irritating, even infuriating, but they are always challenging. … At the risk of dilettantism, Cohen draws in a wide range of references. He locates Leonard within the context of the wide Jewish tradition, then triangulates his place in Western intellectual history, from Saint Augustine to Susan Sontag. From Sontag, he takes the amusing position that reviews are ‘the intellect's revenge on art’. [But] his book would seem to belie that idea.”

— Steve Walker, Your Weekend