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The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Hock Talk

This is how the glorified pawnshop works, according to José Luis Arregín, the broker: Money-strapped clients hock their stuff for half its value in cash.
ZARATUSTRA VÁZQUEZ, LANDER DEWEER
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Conquest Of The Useless

In 1979, Werner Herzog approached 20th Century Fox to fund a movie, based on a true story, about an overzealous rubber baron who wishes to stage an opera in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon.
Werner Herzog
6.2.09
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Bearded, Bald, And Belgian

As part of the Antwerp Six, designer Walter Van Beirendonck stood out as the color-happy alternative to understated co-members Ann Demeulemeester and Dries Van Noten. Today Walt is the super-gay god-daddy to Bernhard Willhelm and all those kids at
Elin Unnes
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

War Is Hell, And Hell Sucks

It’s about as clichéd to call a war book “harrowing” as it is to call a movie about a handicapped guy overcoming the odds a “triumph,” but I’ll be damned if this book didn’t harrow me out big-time.
Jesse Pearson, BARRON STOREY
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Borderline Bigots

Each year hundreds of thousands of optimistic South and Central Americans travel north to see whether things might be less crappy for them in the United States. The problem is they have to cross Mexico to get there.
LUIS AGUILAR
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Hock Talk

We were disappointed when the pawnshop we visited in Amsterdam wasn’t some seedy box in the red-light district with a mean old coot slouching behind his desk and patting the shotgun on his lap.
MAXI MEISSNER, ULRIKE GRABLER
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Surrogate Cocks, Inc.

It happens to a lot of men. You meet a beautiful girl, and for some reason you can’t divine, she’s attracted to you. You get to know her, take turns putting your mouths in unspeakably awkward places, establish sides of the bed.
Conor Creighton, Steve Ryan
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Vice Fashion - Blackest Ever Black

Photos by Ben RaynerStyling by Lauren Blane
Ben Rayner, Lauren Blane
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Elmore Leonard Is the Man

Let’s just say this: Elmore Leonard, now going on 84 years old, is still cranking out perfectly detailed, thrilling, and hilarious stories of criminals at a pace that’s hard to believe.
Jesse Pearson
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Hock Talk

Pawnshops in Canada aren't all that different from those in the US, but for whatever reason finding a chatty pawnbroker was like chiseling a dead body out of concrete.
ELIANNA LEV, FREDERIC WHITE
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

A Living, Breathing Philosopher

Simon Critchley is renowned for his groundbreaking ethical reading of the deconstructionist movement (that’s an important thing, even if you have no idea what it means).
Steve Fowler
6.2.09
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Suiting Up, Crusting Down

Recently London was tousled by a series of riots led by outraged anarchists who were probably just really bored. As usual, it looked like a good time.
Bruno Bayley, James Knight, Jamie Taete
6.2.09
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