What does it evoke? What do you think of? More specifically, who do you think of? You immediately know you’re about to spend ...

The National Football League is back, in case you haven’t already been lectured, hectored, and badgered into aural submission ...

The first line of Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel Exit Party sets the tone of the whole book. She writes, “In the first ...

The science fiction author William Gibson’s pithy observation that “the future is already here—it’s just not very evenly ...

It is difficult, and yet important, to practice holding multiple truths at once, such as: No animal is inherently bad, and ...

Who knew Ben Shelton could do all that? Certainly not the Defector writer who was slandering him in the early stages of the ...

Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set ...

At my university, you had to take an introductory fiction writing workshop before you were eligible to apply for the more ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season (except when ...

Only If You Get Caught is back for Season 2. If you listened to the first season, welcome back; if you didn’t, you have six ...

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...