What does it evoke? What do you think of? More specifically, who do you think of? You immediately know you’re about to spend ...

The first line of Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel Exit Party sets the tone of the whole book. She writes, “In the first ...

The National Football League is back, in case you haven’t already been lectured, hectored, and badgered into aural submission ...

The science fiction author William Gibson’s pithy observation that “the future is already here—it’s just not very evenly ...

Who knew Ben Shelton could do all that? Certainly not the Defector writer who was slandering him in the early stages of the ...

Before the NFL season kicks off this weekend, it will kick off Wednesday night with a primetime game between the New England ...

Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season (except when ...

It is difficult, and yet important, to practice holding multiple truths at once, such as: No animal is inherently bad, and ...

At my university, you had to take an introductory fiction writing workshop before you were eligible to apply for the more ...

Only If You Get Caught is back for Season 2. If you listened to the first season, welcome back; if you didn’t, you have six ...

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family ...