Bob Nickas’s 2012-14 Vice magazine column, Komplaint Dept., forms the core of this volume, which contains trenchant, witty and personal essays, critiques, an dialogues on the author’s omnivorous interests, from Neil Young, Sun Ra, and Royal Trux to Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and David Cronenberg. Along the way, Nickas guides us through New York architecture, the fate of punk fashion, the problem with contemporary graffiti, and two different presidents.