Like a tuna fish sandwich, quaint has a shelf life. Also like a tuna fish sandwich, it’s definitely shorter than…

Sponge got their guitars stolen on Tuesday. I know this because the band’s publicist, Leo Lavoro, is going above and…

Brian Evenson’s first book, a story collection titled Altmann’s Tongue, came out in 1994. It was not widely reviewed. The…

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you…

Defector will publish no written league-wide preview for the 2026-27 NBA season. Not even a cute, belatedly published one, either.…

For months, I’ve seen Michigan basketball fans chortle ominously about the big personality of Yaxel Lendeborg, the super-senior who led…

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently. What could compel…

This is not to discredit the existence of some underlying tactical or strategic calculations, and it is absolutely not extending…

In 2000, midway through the first season of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin started posting on a discussion forum on…

There’s a type of hate that’s easy to love. It’s the hate a downtrodden fanbase feels for a homegrown star…

There’s a sequence from the first quarter of Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, in which the Atlanta Dream walloped…

When news came out that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund had taken a majority stake in Electronic Arts last September,…