5 Feet of Fury

Lynn Crosbie on Courtney Love

It cannot be easy for Love to confront images of the still-27 Cobain, who looks less like her husband and more like her son every passing year. The theft-of-the-ashes tale is another story altogether, which may be about the carelessness and mendacity of certain junkies, and/or about losing, genuinely, the last speck of what remains of Cobain, of her great romantic and artistic partnership with him.