memoir
My Time as an Artist at the Center of the Insane Financial Industry Boom
An excerpt from Molly Crabapple's upcoming memoir, "Drawing Blood," out on December 1.
Death Styles of the Rich and Famous: Stories From an Upper East Side Funeral Home
The author of a new memoir tells us what it was like to work at the place that gave John Lennon, Jackie Onassis, and Philip Seymour Hoffman their final sendoffs.
Juliet Jacques and Sheila Heti Talk About Writing, Feminism, and Life After Gender Reassignment Surgery
An excerpt from Jacques's new book, "Trans."
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ Is as Important and Necessary as Everyone Says It Is
One of America's sharpest cultural commentators delivers a rich, abrasive meditation on the existential quandaries of modern American negro life.
What It's Like to Be a Blackout Drunk
Sarah Hepola, author of 'Blackout,' on the paranoia, fun, and pain of drinking so much you wipe out your memory.
We Ate a Shit-Ton of Hummus with Israeli Short-Story Writer Etgar Keret
Israel's greatest vegetarian short-story writer was in New York City—and he was hungry.
The Safdie Brothers' ‘Heaven Knows What’ Is the Most Powerful Movie About the Life of Addicts in a Long, Long Time
We interviewed the filmmakers and actress
The Woman Who Woke Up in the Future
Naomi Jacobs went to bed a 32-year-old woman and woke up believing she was a teenager again. After temporarily losing 17 years of memories from a rare form of amnesia, Jacobs wrote a memoir about piecing her life back together.
A Hundred Years Is Nothing: The VICE Interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky
We Skyped with the legendary Chilean filmmaker to ask about his life and work, from his days as a young poet in Chile to his new Kickstarter, along with discussions of psychomagic, George Harrison's anus, and a Tarot reading with Yeezus.
Alison Bechdel's New Musical Is About the Suicide of Her Closeted Gay Father
We spoke to the cartoonist about adapting her critically acclaimed coming of age story for the stage, and the "test" that bears her name.
My Reunion with Christiane F.
Brad Elterman reconnects with the mysterious and reclusive Christiane F. for the first time since 1981.