His brilliantly reimagined fictional landscape conjures a hellish vision of the developing world's endemic dislocation.
Its brand is all about shocking and busting taboos; its schtick is mixing serious reportage from some of the most hellish places on earth with pointless videos of topless models and headlines such as "Why are the British obsessed with sheds?" But underneath the gonzo self-image it is so keen to promote, Vice is a giant old-school corporation.
I also remember that it was a very weird experience to be reading about totally hellish second world war chaos on a strange island off the Italian coast when I was in the middle of the African bush in the most wild and peaceful place I'd ever been, with an elephant munching on the branches of the next tree.
A rightwing political website then hired another man in a chicken costume to chase Ed Miliband, and a series of hellish chicken puns ensued.
This may sounds hellish to British students who are used to a month off at Easter and Christmas - in the Netherlands you get a maximum of two weeks off for these holidays.
You described some parts of the journey as "more hellish than hell".
Spacey has said in the past that Horrible Bosses' Harken and Buddy Ackerman, the hellish movie industry boss he played here, could have been brothers.
Steeped in Kafka, Catch-22 and David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, Graeber was alive to all the hellish ironies of the situation but that didn't make it any easier to bear.
It's a hellish existence, so what if they could just skip it – or at the very least, enjoy it?
Indeed, it is President Obama's enforcement of Bush-era deportation policy, not the "amnesty" granted to so-called Dreamers, that's created the overcrowding and hellish conditions that so define the lives of border detainees.
Blair's actions flew in the face of this agreement, unleashing a hellish wave of violence that is still ongoing.
