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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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Defector

The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Israel Daramola

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Val Kilmer

Arts And Culture

Remembering Val Kilmer In Five Movies

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Soraya Roberts

Ludwig – Series 1

‘Ludwig’ Gets Cozy With David Mitchell’s Limits

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

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Nicholas Russell

Capturing A Sperm Whale

‘Moby-Dick’ Is Still Too Big For The Opera

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Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’ Is The Latest Example Of TV’s Silver Age

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Kathryn Xu

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KiiiKiii And The Dawn Of K-Pop’s Process Era

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

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What The Beads Can Tell You

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

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Drew Magary

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Gun Assembly Required

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Maitreyi Anantharaman

All My Favorite Lines From ‘With Love, Meghan’

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Lauren Theisen

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Scene from A Streetcar Named Desire

Four Blanches

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Patrick Redford

PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 10: Stephen Curry (4) of Team USA in action during Men's Gold Medal game between Team France and Team United States on day fifteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 10, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Aytac Unal/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Basketball – Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 15

‘Court Of Gold’ Is Brilliant When It Gets Specific

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Mark Asch

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Interviews

‘Eephus’ Director Carson Lund On Baseball As A Way Of Being

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Denzel Washington And Gene Hackman In ‘Crimson Tide’

A Small Gene Hackman Memory for You

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Barry Petchesky

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George Lowe Had To Be Brilliant To Make Space Ghost That Stupid

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Society Can’t Quit The Oscars

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Kelsey McKinney

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You Don’t Have To See Everything In The Museum

Matene Toure

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‘Nickel Boys’ Deserves Best Picture

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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Samer Kalaf

Palestinians walk through the destruction in Gaza.

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Pankaj Mishra On Gaza, The Memory Of The Holocaust, And The “Very Dark World” To Come

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How Donald Trump Won Rap Back

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The Scorebug Snuggery: The Phillies Abandon “P00P”

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Lost At The Warhol

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 28: Cash Cobain and Bay Swag attend Funk Flex Winter Fest on December 28, 2024 in New York City. Cobain is wearing a Yankees cap and sunglasses. He has a beard that's short and hit shis chin. He's in a blue hoodie. Bay Wag is wearing a big gold chain, sunglasses, a baseball hat, a very diamond-encrusted watch, and holding a plastic bottle of water in one hand and a microphone in the other

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Listening Habits

How Do You Make Sex And Party Music For An Era Uninterested In Both?

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‘Black Box Diaries’ Splits A Journalist In Two

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Metropolitan Opera

Silence Brings Us Together