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Close Reading Is For Everyone

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Helen Frankenthaler Is A Reason To Go To Rochester

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

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Drew Magary

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Are We Human, Or Are We Slayer?

Investigations Editor. You can contact her at diana@defector.com or dfmoskovitz@protonmail.com. She&#8217;s also on Signal @dmoskovitz.99

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Timothée Chalamet Is In His Sports Bro Era

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Kelsey McKinney

Visual Editor. Runs <a href="http://defectorstore.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">defectorstore.com</a>. Philadelphia-based, if you couldn’t tell.

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Ray Ratto

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Can You Do Racism Against Italians? A Eurovision Roundtable

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Robert Rubsam

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Netflix Keeps Ruining Action Movies

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‘Mitchell’ Is Part Of Joe Don Baker’s Legacy, For Better Or Worse

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Swole Woman Casey Johnston Has Written A Swole Book

Violet Lucca is the author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/david-cronenberg-clinical-trials-violet-lucca/21170132">David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials</a>. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Sight and Sound, the Village Voice, and elsewhere. She was the VP of Digital at Harper’s Magazine and Digital Producer at Film Comment, and was the host of their respective podcasts.

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Violet Lucca

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Defector At The Movies

‘The Shrouds’ Is David Cronenberg’s Typically Prescient Epitaph For Our Present And His Career

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‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’ Is A Digital Monument To Vanity

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‘Friendship’ Can’t Sustain The Relationship

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Every Episode Of The Danny McBride HBO Universe, Ranked

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‘The Surfer’ Mostly Sputters And Flails

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An Abundance Of Concrete

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‘The Settlers’ Makes Louis Theroux Say What He Thinks

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Mark Zuckerberg Still Can’t Buy Taste

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Jack Hanson

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The Perfect Fascist

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Tunde Adebimpe’s Solo Debut Channels The Gift Of The Mixtape

Jake Romm is a New York City-based writer and the Associate Editor of Protean Magazine.

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The Paranoid Fantasies Of ‘October 8’

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‘Sinners’ Is A Worthy Blockbuster

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How Meeting Richard Kind Changed The Course Of My Life

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‘Drop’ Is Not A ’90s Thriller Because The ’90s Are Unfortunately Over

John Semley is a writer and researcher based in Philadelphia.

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How Record Store Day Became The Stupidest Day In Music

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Lindsey Adler is a writer based in Brooklyn. She exclusively covered sports for a decade but has other interests, too.

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NEW ORLEANS, LA - OCTOBER 28: Jesse Lacey of Brand New performs during the 2017 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience at City Park on October 28, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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