As the Art World descends on Venice’s canals for the 60th Biennale, Spike’s hedonist columnist dishes out the best way to get drunk between bridges and where to eat like Hemingway.

From fake-masturbating above Tito’s motorcade to republishing her mother’s poems, a retrospective in Vienna brings together a half-century of irreverent polymathy.

Set amid early 2000s punk and aching intensely with bad choices and deep longing, the novel is a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she’ll go to find acceptance.

Tea Hacic-Vlahovic has written Spike’s society column, “Gesellschaft am Ende”, since the summer of 2021. It’s time it gets from the paper to the World Wide Web. We start from the start, Spike #68, whe...