Brooches Won The Oscars | Defector
On the biggest night in movies, there are two ways to win: Your years of craft and toil can be...
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Confessions Of A Bookanizer | Defector
I’m currently reading The Power Broker. Are you impressed? You should be. I am big-boy writer who reads big-boy books....
Defector Wuthers Some Heights | Defector
Wuthering Heights is always a stranger book than you remember. This holds true whether you last read it in high...
A Season For Hope | Defector
Defector has partnered with Baseball Prospectus to bring you a taste of their work. They write good shit that we...
The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Condemns The Atrocities Of Back-To-School Week
Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the...
Defector Reads A Book Is Deciding If This Is The Funniest Novel Ever Written
The last few times Defector staffers have gathered to read a book, we've chosen sports novels. Namely, baseball and cycling....
Rob Manfred’s Two Jobs | Defector
Defector has partnered with Baseball Prospectus to bring you a taste of their work. They write good shit that we...
Ballhalla Is A Mindset | Defector
The team didn’t win, but everyone stayed. It wasn’t even their building. And still, most of the Golden State Valkyries...
Management Secrets Of Assholes, And Five Years Of Defector
There were no real expectations when we launched Defector, five years and one day ago. Plenty of planning went into...
The Critic Counts | Defector
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also...
The Tour Is Theirs | Defector
Men’s tennis is just Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz hurtling toward one another, with loud and incandescent results. Since Sinner...
I Hurt My Back | Defector
I can't remember exactly what I was doing when it happened. The morning had started normally enough. It was a...
Butlerian Jihad Now | Defector
Maybe some things should not be simulated.That is my takeaway—one of them, anyway—from a Tuesday New York Times story by...
TNT Sports Airs Guerrilla Marketing For Worker-Owned Website That Isn’t Defector
It wasn't my intent to attend back-to-back Phillies-Mets games. Over the past month there had been two separate, developing conversations...
The Defector Era Of ‘Nothing But Respect’ Is Here, With Maitreyi Anantharaman And David Roth
For the first time in sports media history, Defector is now publishing a podcast about, get this, basketball. Nothing But...
