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A Ghost Story
All illustrations courtesy of the Naruyama Gallery. I am sure if I had accepted a certain marriage proposal, my life might have continued in an ordinary way, but I refused that humiliation. Later when...
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A Few Impressions: The Parallel Structure in 'Strangers on a Train'
Image by Courtney Nicholas One of the strategies that Patricia Highsmith employs in her first novel, Strangers on a Train, is to bounce the narrative between two characters. As the title suggests,...
View ArticleItalica: The VICE Guide to the Venice Biennale - Part 1
Every two years since 1895, Venice has hosted the most important contemporary art exhibition in the world. Over a period of six months, the Biennale welcomes over 375,000 visitors and raises millions...
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Uncovering the "Truth" Among the Conspiracy Theorists at the 2013 Bilderberg...
Every year, the Bilderberg Group—a collection of some of the world's most powerful people—gets together to discuss how to keep on being powerful. Now, considering that the past couple weeks haven't...
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Tao Lin's iPhone Photos of Taipei: Taipei Metro
For the past couple of months, in celebration of last week's release of Tao Lin's latest novel, Taipei, we have been featuring a weekly selection of photos taken by the author during his recent trip...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Jessie Andrews, Our Favorite Porn Star, Remixed Duke Dumont
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Komp-laintDept.Nic Refn and Ryan Gosling Driven… to Distraction
This is one fucked-up movie. There's no other way to say it, really. As fans of director Nicolas Refn and his alter ego Ryan Gosling have surely heard by now, their follow-up to Drive was pretty badly...
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Neither Big nor Easy: My Elementary Schoolers Are Terrific Music Critics
The author's students pose with a Michael Jackson impersonator, the rapper Lucky Lou, and their finished book. Since Katrina hit New Orleans, I’ve been teaching English after school in some truly...
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Chunklet to Go Go : Metal's Lost Survivalist Endeavors of the 1990s - Volume...
It's common knowledge that several forms of metal weathered a serious beating at the hands of alt-you-name-it in the early-to-mid-90s, with hair-metal forced into a well-deserved dirt-nap. Hair metal...
View ArticleA Photo History of the NSA, from Its Once-Secret Archives
A Photo History of the NSA, from Its Once-Secret Archives
View ArticleWill America Drone NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden?
Ron Paul seems to think it could happen. As the former Congressman from Texas recently told Fox News, "I'm worried [that] somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone...
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Last Words
Christian Siriano coat, vintage dress VIRGINIA WOOLF, 59 Born: January 25, 1882 (London, England) Died: March 28, 1941 (Lewes, England) Cause Of Death: drowning Stylist: Annette Lamothe-Ramos Set...
View ArticleDavid Letterman Wants to Know if Those Are Your Drums
David Letterman Wants to Know if Those Are Your Drums
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The VICE Reader: The Black Bear
All sketches by Olivia Hinds Wistar Murray is a writer from Charlottesville, Virginia. She graduated from Columbia University's MFA program in fiction, where she was a 2010 winner of the Henfield...
View ArticleWild Things: The Dog Hunter
In the close-knit world of dog hunting, Tom Varney is a legend, and he has the DVD sales to prove it. Tom is a former psychotic criminal who later found God and devoted himself to serving his fellow...
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Big Booties Don't Get into Rap Videos Without These Guys
Rap music videos have warped my perception of the world. After years of watching clips like "Big Pimpin'" and "Tip Drill," my thoughts have become infested with half-naked girls who tug around...
View ArticleWe Are Not Men: Man Have Sex with Girl in Cave: Dissecting ‘Gigolos’
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all...
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Meet the Lawyer Representing Osama bin Laden's Son-in-Law
Stanley Cohen (right) in Gaza with one of the two disputed prime ministers of the Palestinian National Authority, Ismail Haniyeh. Photo by Peter Spagnuolo via The term "polarizing figure" has become a...
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What Are These Freaks Reading?
When summertime rolls around, all I want to do is stay inside and try not to sweat. I guess that’s why summer reading lists are a thing. I don’t keep a running list, though. I just have stacks of...
View ArticleVICE News: The Battle of Taksim Square
This footage was shot by Robert King the morning of Tuesday, June 11, when Taksim Square in Istanbul was being evicted by the riot police. The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had said he...
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