4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (300+ words) ‘Only If You Get Caught’ Returns Next Week defector.com ‘Only If You Get Caught’ Returns Next Week 2:40 PM EDT on September 9, 2026 The time has once again come to break the rules: Only If You Get Caught is back for…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (164+ words) 3:12 PM EDT on September 9, 2026 Today’s story is about another fledgling taking her first steps into another artistic realm: the theater. What better backdrop for a bunch of young people to take everything too seriously, from their roller skates to their…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1457+ words) In her 1980 essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence,” Adrienne Rich lists over 60 examples of systematized female oppression. To name a few: the power of men to deny women their own sexuality or to force male sexuality upon them via rape,…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (429+ words) 12:04 PM EDT on September 7, 2026 There’s something about lakes, trees, and short shorts that loosens inhibitions, lest the summer be wasted. “A Canadian summer is fleeting and precious,” Every Year After author Carley Fortune said after her romance book was adapted…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (228+ words) This week on Nothing But Respect, we mostly talked about dumb stuff with a smart guy. The guy in question was Jake Bittle, staff writer for Grist and the author of The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (236+ words) 9:07 AM EDT on September 1, 2026 Fernando Flores, a bookseller and writer here in Austin, Texas, specifically called out the omission of booksellers from Horowitch’s article. He pointed out on Instagram how often booksellers are excluded from this genre of piece, and…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (597+ words) I was an adult when I encountered Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” for the first time. I grew up thinking Whitney Houston’s 1992 cover was the original; I can’t say exactly when my ignorance was rectified but Twitter was…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (1080+ words) Like all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much surprising here....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1420+ words) Defector Our Favorite Dolly Parton Performances 12:33 PM EDT on August 26, 2026 On Tuesday, in the moments after I heard that Dolly Parton had died, I returned immediately to "Light of a Clear Blue Morning." It's a song I've always loved, even…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (827+ words) 12:02 PM EDT on August 18, 2026 Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking…...