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Interviews

‘The Cruelest Game’ Examines Tennis As Torture

By Owen Lewis

August 12, 2026

54Comments

Games

Two Scrabble Superstars Explain Their Unbelievable Championship Match

By Stefan Fatsis

August 10, 2026

57Comments

Staff Chat

Staff Chat Starts Now? Staff Chat Starts Now

By Defector Staff

August 7, 2026

934Comments

Interviews

What’s Parenting Lily Yohannes Like? An Interview With Her Dad

By Abigail Segel

April 24, 2026

16Comments

Staff Chat

The Time To Chat With The Defector Staff Is Once Again Upon Us

By Defector Staff

November 14, 2025

957Comments

Interviews

Lucas Schaefer Understands The Brutality, Absurdity, And Transcendence Of Boxing

By Owen Lewis

September 5, 2025

11Comments

Staff Chat

Well Look At That, It’s Time To Chat With The Defector Staff Again

By Defector Staff

August 8, 2025

929Comments

Interviews

Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back: Michael Koresky On Hollywood’s Queer History

By Nicholas Russell

July 2, 2025

15Comments

Interviews

A Lot Can Go Wrong While Attempting A Speed Record On Mount Everest

By Owen Lewis

July 1, 2025

60Comments

Interviews

Megan Greenwell On Living Under And Outside Of Private Equity, The Invasive Species Eating American Life

By David Roth

June 10, 2025

179Comments

Interviews

An Interview With A Fired NOAA Budget Analyst

By Sabrina Imbler

March 7, 2025

84Comments

Interviews

An Interview With A Fired USFWS Biologist

By Sabrina Imbler

March 4, 2025

61Comments

Soccer

“It Changes Everything”: What Canada’s New Women’s Soccer League Means To Two Of Its Players

By Abigail Segel

January 31, 2025

21Comments

Creaturefector

Normalize Eating Poop

By Sabrina Imbler

January 30, 2025

173Comments

Climate

The Future Of West Coast Wildfire Is Whiplash

By Sabrina Imbler

January 16, 2025

160Comments

Climate

What Can We Learn From Back-To-Back Monster Hurricanes Helene And Milton?

By Sabrina Imbler

October 17, 2024

155Comments

Music

Sunset Rubdown’s Spencer Krug Doesn’t Want To Live In The Past Forever

By Luis Paez-Pumar

September 20, 2024

22Comments

Interviews

‘Know Your Enemy’ Host Matt Sitman Talks About Covering Politics Without Becoming A Hack

By Nicholas Russell

August 8, 2024

57Comments

Wings Week

An Interview With The Biggest Washington Nationals Prospect Sicko Any Of Us Know

By Lauren Theisen

July 15, 2024

89Comments

Arts And Culture

Ethan Hawke Wants To Make Movies That Begin At The End

By Corey Atad

May 1, 2024

79Comments

Interviews

What Do We Do With Our Climate Anxiety?

By Sabrina Imbler

April 12, 2024

90Comments

Arts And Culture

‘The Kid Detective’ Is Too Good To Be Forgotten

By Soraya Roberts

April 11, 2024

41Comments

Interviews

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

By Nicholas Russell

March 4, 2024

45Comments

Arts And Culture

Joanna Arnow’s Time Has Arrived

By Soraya Roberts

October 4, 2023

10Comments

Music

The Internet’s Biggest Jack Antonoff Hater Explains Himself

By Soraya Roberts

October 26, 2022

298Comments

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