Daniil Medvedev, who was the No. 1 player on the ATP as recently as 2022, and to me, the most compelling persona in men’s ...

The Padres and Dodgers have a nice little rivalry going on. After this weekend’s three-game series, in which San Diego took ...

Steven Soderbergh made The Limey for $10 million in 1998, and by his own account had an absolutely miserable time doing it.

In 1971, the great rock critic Lester Bangs tried to imagine a time when the music of the recent past would seem alien.

Jerry Jones has not yet brought to a conclusion the latest in his annual series of contract stalemates with high-profile ...

There is a long history of people being weird about Sally Rooney: Her books are too Marxist or not Marxist enough; she glamorizes thinness, stigmatizes BDSM, and promotes unhealthy age-gap relations; ...

Nobody can accuse me of not being careful. I make very few real mistakes, instead opting for piles of wasted opportunities.

Some people are fans of the Minnesota Vikings. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Minnesota Vikings. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the ...

Winfield is a sun-bleached spot of a city in the middle of southeastern Kansas’s farmlands. It’s unremarkable except that it ...

Welcome to Ask The Book Doctor, a recurring series about books and reading them. I have a terrible memory, but I remember every word of Margaret Wise Brown’s iconic 1947 children’s book Goodnight Moon ...

By night, spectral bats leave their roost and swoop through the tree canopy of Costa Rica, wings outstretched as far as three ...

Sleep: a practice for suckers. Human relationships: a distraction from the grind. Non-helicopter modes of transportation: too ...