Literature
Getting a Job, a Short Story by Your Parents
An excerpt from longtime VICE contributor and Broadly editor-at-large Monica Heisey's new book, 'I Can't Believe It's Not Better.'
Frankly, We Loved Morrissey's Erotic Writing, so We Asked Him to Reimagine Some Classic Sex Scenes
How would Moz have done Ghost? And what about Titanic? Answers within.
A Brief Overanalysis of Morrissey’s Nightmarish Vision of Sex
Morrissey has written a book, and within that book is the most bizarre sex scene ever imagined.
Inside the South Korean Rehab Clinic that Treats Gaming Addicts With a German Sci-Fi Novel
In a country where 14 percent of teens are addicted to electronic media, an emerging rehab industry is finding new ways to reintroduce people to the real world.
How Computer Games Helped Me Recover from My Heroin Addiction
The author of 'White Out' and the new memoir 'Gamelife' on how his computer-game habit changed his life for the better.
I Got a Lesson in Gender Equality at a Romance Writers' Conference
I'd promised my editor a funny piece about the people who write and read romantic fiction, but what I found wasn't a joke.
A Tête-à-Tête about Women, the Internet, and Jonathan Franzen's 'Purity'
Two VICE editors discuss Franzen's latest lightning rod of literary controversy.
A Tale of Two Mothers: Joel Peterson's Autobiographical Novel Takes on Love, War, and Adoption
Peterson's Dreams of My Mothers is an autobiographical novel, following his life from his childhood in South Korea to his adolescence as an adopted son in Minnesota.
Alexandra Kleeman's Debut Novel 'You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine' Charts New Dystopian Territory
We met the novelist to talk about Philip K. Dick, roommate dynamics, and gender in paranoid, postmodern-y works.
People Are Angry About a Romance Novel Where a Nazi Officer Falls in Love with a Concentration Camp Prisoner
For Such a Time features a "blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jewess" pairing off with an SS Guard.
Read a Story from Lucia Berlin's 'A Manual for Cleaning Women'
A story from the new collection by the great but not widely appreciated writer.
Horror Is Still Grappling with the Long, Dark Shadow of HP Lovecraft
A hot weekend in Atlanta with Victorian killers, zombie celebrities, and the genre's leading authors and most decked-out fans.