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NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On May 16

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Live Event

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Niko Stratis

Jakob Dylan, in 1997, singing in front of a microphone. He has short curly hair, maybe has a little beard, and he's in a long sleeve collared button-front shirt. He's playing guitar. In the corner there's an image of a book cover: The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, by Niko Stratis

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Book Excerpts That Don't Suck

Got To Be Something Better Than In The Middle

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Jack Hanson

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Arts And Culture

The Perfect Fascist

Leah Finnegan is the former editor-in-chief of Gawker and the Outline. She has written and edited for the New York Times, New York magazine, the New Republic, the Baffler, and others.

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Leah Finnegan

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Dream Count’ Is Stuck In The Past

Sarah Brouillette

A collage of covers of books. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Barbarian Lover, Fourth Wing, Ice Planet Barbarians, The Serpent and the Wings of Night, and The Games Gods Play

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Alien Pleasures

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Patrick Redford

Sir John Falstaff On A Visit To His Friend Page, At Windsor. From The Merry Wives Of Windsor, By William Shakespeare. Drawn And Etched By George Cruikshank. From The Illustrated Library Shakspeare, Published London 1890. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Interviews

Jeremy Gordon On Grief, Connection, And His Novel ‘See Friendship’

<a href="http://www.ddavisla.com">David Davis </a>is the author of Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans From World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation and Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku. He lives in Los Angeles.
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David Davis

Photo of Gidget running through the Malibu Pier. Fifty years after Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, aka Gidget, learned to surf in Malibu, the surfing world has accepted her as surfing's early pioneers, mascots and avid promoters. April 27, 2006, (Photo by Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Photo of Gidget running through the Malibu Pier. Fifty years after Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, aka Gidg

Gidget The Survivor

Grace Byron is a writer from the Midwest based in Queens whose writing has appeared in The Cut, Vogue, LARB, The Baffler, Bookforum, and elsewhere. Find her @emotrophywife. Her debut novel Herculine is forthcoming from Saga Press.

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Grace Byron

Bill Gates speaks at the Global Solutions Summit

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What’s The Point Of Bill Gates?

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

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Nicholas Russell

Two hands, a drawing, holding an orange sign with yellow text that reads: MAKE YOUR OWN JOB

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The Power Of Negative Thinking

<div id=":g4.ma" class="Mu SP" title="January 26, 2021 at 2:34:42 PM UTC-5" data-tooltip="January 26, 2021 at 2:34:42 PM UTC-5"><a href="https://twitter.com/GoStevenGoldman">Steven Goldman</a> is a former BP editor-in-chief and current consulting editor. He is the author of the Casey Stengel biography <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Forging-Genius-Making-Casey-Stengel/dp/1574888749">Forging Genius</a> and host of the long-running <a href="https://www.baseballprospectus.com/show/the-infinite-inning/">Infinite Inning podcast</a>, which sits at the crossroads of baseball, history, politics, and culture. His most recent book, which has an introduction by David Roth, is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Baseballs-Brief-Lives-Inspired-Infinite/dp/B0BBJTPGDF">Baseball&#8217;s Brief Lives: Player-Stories Inspired by the Infinite Inning</a>.</div>
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Bill Rariden of the Cincinnati Reds tags Buck Weaver of the Chicago White Sox out at home plate in the second game of the 1919 World Series at Crosley Field.

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Cruelty, Hype, And The American Way In Harry Stein’s Baseball Novel ‘Hoopla’

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Defector Staff

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Year In Review

The Best Things We Read In 2024

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Joe Biden holds a copy of The Hundred Years' War On Palestine by Rashid Khalidi.

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Politics

The Next History Book On Palestine Will Have Joe Biden In It

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Madame De Pompadour

Books You Can Read Tonight To Distract Yourself From Whatever Is To Come

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Rachelle Hampton

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In Rumaan Alam’s ‘Entitlement,’ Money Comes At The Expense Of Everything Else

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Maitreyi Anantharaman

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Brandy Jensen

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Defector Reads A Book

Let’s Chat Janet Malcolm, Analysis, And Get ‘In The Freud Archives’

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“It Ends With Us” New York Premiere – Arrivals

There Is Still No Escaping Colleen Hoover

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China Miéville Is Back

Defector Reads A Book Is Ending The Summer With Janet Malcolm

Heather Chen is a former Defector intern and the managing editor at the Columbia Daily Spectator. She loves hockey, photography, and the good ol’ state of Michigan.

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Heather Wei-Xi Chen

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Wings Week

I Love Trashy Fantasy Books, But I Cannot Condone TikTok’s Obsession With ‘Fourth Wing’

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Tom Ley

The Great Cattle drive Giddy up Australia In Australia- As part of the Great Australien Outback Cattle Drive, tourists join with seasoned stockmen to drive 600 head of cattle down the Birdsville track, experiencing the magic of the Australien interior along the way.

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

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Kelsey McKinney

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David Roth

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

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Who Are These Big Book Lists For?

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

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Donte DiVincenzo #0, Jalen Brunson #11, and Josh Hart #3 of the New York Knicks react against the Indiana Pacers during Game One of the Eastern Conference Second Round Playoffs at Madison Square Garden on May 06, 2024 in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. ()

Indiana Pacers v New York Knicks – Game One

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

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Barry Petchesky

SHAOYANG, CHINA - FEBRUARY 16: People read books at Songpo bookstore during the Spring Festival holiday on February 16, 2021 in Shaoyang, Hunan Province of China. (Photo by Teng Zhizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

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