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It’s Time For You To Read ‘Lonesome Dove’

July 18, 2024

Let Loose The Jesses And Come Discuss ‘H Is For Hawk’ With Us

By Maitreyi Anantharaman, Brandy Jensen, Kelsey McKinney, David Roth, and Patrick Redford

July 16, 2024

Arts And Culture

Who Are These Big Book Lists For?

By Kelsey McKinney

July 10, 2024

Defector Reads A Book

DRAB:H Is For Defector Reads A Bird: ‘H Is For Hawk’

By Patrick Redford

June 20, 2024

Vinson Cunningham On The Knicks, Art, And How Basketball Can Help You Live Nobly

By Patrick Redford

May 30, 2024

Buy Yourself A Gift Card

By Barry Petchesky

May 16, 2024

Defector Reads A Book

Defector Reads A Book Returns With ‘The Fire Next Time’

By Patrick Redford

April 16, 2024

What Do We Do With Our Climate Anxiety?

By Sabrina Imbler

April 12, 2024

Why Can’t I Turn Off The Game?

March 22, 2024

Arts And Culture

‘Dune’ Novels, Ranked By Unfilmability

By Danny Sullivan

March 5, 2024

“It Really Matters If Somebody Has Bad Taste”: An Interview With Book Critic Becca Rothfeld

By Nicholas Russell

March 4, 2024

Lessons Of Collapse And The Christian Version Of Limp Bizkit, With Jason Kirk

February 1, 2024

The Best Things We Read In 2023

By Defector Staff

December 27, 2023

Arts And Culture

A Year In Pursuit Of Moby Dick

By Nicholas Russell

December 15, 2023

Defector Reads A Book

Defector Reads A Book Is Gonna Kiss That White Whale

By Patrick Redford

December 13, 2023

Arts And Culture

If BookTok Convinces Teens They’re Ready For Erotica, Is It My Job To Stop Them?

By Jackie Charniga

November 22, 2023

Arts And Culture

How The Defector Staff Organizes Their Books

By Defector Staff

November 3, 2023

Defector Reads A Book

Defector Reads A Book Is Getting Low-Key Parasocial With It

By Patrick Redford

October 19, 2023

Arts And Culture

Michael Lewis’s ‘Going Infinite’ Goes In Circles

By Patrick Redford

October 10, 2023

The Best Things We Read In 2022

By Defector Staff

December 26, 2022

This Is So Stupid

Are You The General Of Carl von Clausewitz’s Dreams? Take This Quiz To Find Out!

October 3, 2022

Axios Employees Instructed To Use Axios Funds To Buy Six Copies Each Of Axios Founders’ Dumb Book

By Laura Wagner

September 23, 2022

Arts And Culture

Here’s To Mike Davis, A Titan

By Patrick Redford

June 29, 2022

Arts And Culture

The Queen Of Writing The Beautiful Mundane

By Kelsey McKinney

June 12, 2022

Arts And Culture

Reading Is Easy, TV Is Hard

March 2, 2022

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