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This Is a Good Time to Read Leonard Cohen's Poem, "Kanye West Is Not Picasso"
It appears in 'The Flame' a posthumous collection of Cohen's lyrics and poetry, released last week.
This Interview Will Make You Care About Dave Matthews
Vulture's David Marchese spoke to the alternative rock luminary about life, loss, and therapy.
Read Vic Mensa’s Powerful Essay on Palestine and American Racism
"The parallels between the black American experience and the Palestinian experience are overwhelming," the rapper writes at Time.
You Should Read JAY-Z's New Interview With the New York Times
He discussed Donald Trump, entering therapy, and the idea of Dave Chappelle for president.
Meek Mill on the Drake Beef and Battling Internet Fuckboys
"I feel like all that stuff was a mess, for real," the 30-year-old told Noisey. "It was a mess. It was a distraction."
Nick Cave Talks About Living and Writing Through Grief
"I've gotta say, when we were in the studio trying to work on 'Skeleton Tree,' I had no idea what was going on," the legendary artist told Noisey.
Three Books Blurring the Borders of Memory and Reality
Lately I've been finding it hard to trust what I read unless it makes an attempt at caving in the borders between the page and the world beyond.
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.'
American Art Needs More Holes
The biggest hindrance to American art is the inability to see anything outside our own walls. We’re proud of being a “melting pot,” but when it comes to culture not inherently American, it’s hard to convince us that we should care. Thankfully...
The Uncanny Puzzles of Jesse Ball
I bought Jesse Ball’s first novel, Samedi the Deafness, in 1997 entirely because of the book jacket’s description, which compared it to Hitchcock, Kafka, and David Lynch. His latest novel, Silence Once Begun, expands the meditative, eerie...
Books I Gave Up on Reading
I have a hard time letting myself stop reading a book once I’ve started. I always have faith that even though something starts off difficult or boring or bad it can suddenly shift gears, making insane sense out of what had before just seemed tedious as...
Burning Bodies and Playing Dead with Jeff Jackson
An Excerpt from Jeff Jackson's New Novel, 'Mira Corpora'