This has bugged me for YEARS and I'm glad someone finally took it on!!

Prairie Oysters

Kyle have I got the essay for you

The Fatherless Fantasy Of ‘Bridgerton’ | Defector In the world of Netflix’s Bridgerton, the wildly popular Regency romance adapted from an equally popular book series, some things are constant: The women wear organza and brocade gowns; everyone takes...

I love when an essay points out something true—and, in retrospect, totally obvious—that I had never noticed before. All the dads in Bridgerton are dead.

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

Tell the truth and get fired.

The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot.

Such a dissipated trap of a person.

— @brandyjensen.bsky.social, on Claude Collier, from Nancy Lemann's Lives of the Saints, in the New Yorker

Steven Soderbergh And Ed Solomon Talk About Their Best Collaboration Yet | Defector In The Christophers, Michaela Coel plays Lori Butler, a painter hired by a pair of bumbling siblings for an odd sort of job. They want her to go work for their father, a renowned artist named Julian S...

"I realized, 'Wait a minute, my mother is a painter.' My mother quit for 12 years, and it broke my heart." - @edsolomon.bsky.social

for @defector.com, i talked to Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon about making their wonderful new film, The Christophers

I clapped

Achieve Information Independence Via Defector’s Spring Sale | Defector When I survey energy markets—that is, when I gaze through binoculars at the gas station sign I can read from my home as long as there isn’t a big truck in the intersection—I see the disruptive effects...

There is nothing keeping a trial subscriber from reading all five-and-a-half years of Defector during your $1 intro month and then tapping out. But I think the blogs sell themselves, and we're extruding new ones daily: defector.com/achieve-info...

My Year In November 18ths | Defector Time began tormenting me in March of last year. I had been traveling for weeks to promote my book about gossip, a kind of capstone to the fastest-paced era of my life. All of it—the podcast we made, t...

i wrote about my year with On the Calculation of Volume defector.com/my-year-in-n...

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In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

humiliating result for JD Vance plus a life-altering one for Rod Dreher? gonna get an lol hahaha lmao from me

Diane Morgan I would do anything for you

‘Last One Laughing: UK’ Is Absurdly Funny | Defector The premise of Last One Laughing: UK is simple and diabolical: stick a bunch of professionally funny people in a room together for six hours and forbid them from laughing. Crack once and you get a war...

‘Last One Laughing UK’ is absurdly funny defector.com/last-one-lau...

Food Media With Teeth Ravenous is a worker-owned food and culture website serving thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world, founded by some of the best known food journalists and writers across the country.

On Monday, I and four colleagues launched a month-long subscription drive for Ravenous (@weareravenous.com). We are a worker-owned food and culture site, aiming to publish thoughtful and incisive reporting, opinion pieces, and blogs about everything food touches. www.weareravenous.com/about/

been there with a family member. it sucks!!!!

Nancy Lemann’s cult classic “Lives of the Saints” “is like a sweaty, Southern ‘Brideshead Revisited,’ being both about the dying world of a once triumphant class whose rule was never justified, and about how terrible it is to fall in love with a Catholic,” @brandyjensen.bsky.social writes.

‘The Drama’ Has More Going For It Than A Provocative Twist | Defector The only interview that the filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli lists on his website is titled Filmmaker gets shot during interview, in which Borgli—you guessed it—gets shot during an interview. The short…

'The Drama' has more going for it than a provocative twist: defector.com/the-drama-ha...

The Trump Administration Is Killing The U.S. Forest Service So It Can Also Kill U.S. Forests | Defector When you cross into National Forest land, you are greeted with a sign boasting that you are entering into a “Land of Many Uses.” This proclamation hints at a mild contradiction within the U.S. Forest…

The Trump administration is killing the U.S. Forest Service so it can also kill U.S. forests:

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I’m furious

you hated them while they were happening!!!

just give Helen DeWitt a million dollars and a personal assistant! let her write in peace!

aw thanks!

dream pub, dream critic, dream art! (I love you, possum wine bride)

thanks for reading!

I’m so so glad you guys gave it new life! while I agree with everyone who raves about Lives of the Saints, Ritz is my favorite of the three

ah yeah that's the good shit