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Wings Week
It’s Time For You To Read ‘Lonesome Dove’
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Tom Ley
July 18, 2024
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Wings Week
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Arts And Culture
Who Are These Big Book Lists For?
248
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Kelsey McKinney
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Defector Reads A Book
DRAB:H Is For Defector Reads A Bird: ‘H Is For Hawk’
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Patrick Redford
June 20, 2024
Mods Asleep
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47
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Patrick Redford
May 30, 2024
Life Lessons
Buy Yourself A Gift Card
192
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Barry Petchesky
May 16, 2024
Defector Reads A Book
Defector Reads A Book Returns With ‘The Fire Next Time’
58
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Patrick Redford
April 16, 2024
Interviews
What Do We Do With Our Climate Anxiety?
102
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Sabrina Imbler
April 12, 2024
Life Lessons
Why Can’t I Turn Off The Game?
75
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Felix Kent
March 22, 2024
Arts And Culture
‘Dune’ Novels, Ranked By Unfilmability
289
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Danny Sullivan
March 5, 2024
Interviews
“It Really Matters If Somebody Has Bad Taste”: An Interview With Book Critic Becca Rothfeld
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Nicholas Russell
March 4, 2024
Podcasts
Lessons Of Collapse And The Christian Version Of Limp Bizkit, With Jason Kirk
165
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David Roth
February 1, 2024
Year In Review
The Best Things We Read In 2023
238
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Defector Staff
December 27, 2023
Arts And Culture
A Year In Pursuit Of Moby Dick
143
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Nicholas Russell
December 15, 2023
Defector Reads A Book
Defector Reads A Book Is Gonna Kiss That White Whale
212
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Patrick Redford
December 13, 2023
Arts And Culture
If BookTok Convinces Teens They’re Ready For Erotica, Is It My Job To Stop Them?
159
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Jackie Charniga
November 22, 2023
Arts And Culture
How The Defector Staff Organizes Their Books
292
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Defector Staff
November 3, 2023
Defector Reads A Book
Defector Reads A Book Is Getting Low-Key Parasocial With It
28
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Patrick Redford
October 19, 2023
Arts And Culture
Michael Lewis’s ‘Going Infinite’ Goes In Circles
285
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Patrick Redford
October 10, 2023
Year In Review
The Best Things We Read In 2022
317
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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!
180
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Felix Kent
October 3, 2022
Journalismism
Axios Employees Instructed To Use Axios Funds To Buy Six Copies Each Of Axios Founders’ Dumb Book
264
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Laura Wagner
September 23, 2022
Arts And Culture
Here’s To Mike Davis, A Titan
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Patrick Redford
June 29, 2022
Arts And Culture
The Queen Of Writing The Beautiful Mundane
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June 12, 2022
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