This is what the Defector staff read and enjoyed in 2025. The Trials of Gabriel Ward Murder Mystery Series, by Sally Smith ...

In the UK, Nintendo console sales (Switch 2 + Switch 1) are up 41% year-on-year, PS5 console sales were down 29%, and Xbox ...

Long Islanders can’t get enough of Kristin Hannah. For the second consecutive year, Hannah's historical fiction novel "The Women" tops the list of total checkouts in the Nassau Library System, with ...

Hidden in the Milwaukee Public Library's Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin Ave., is a little-known collection of artifacts related to ships that have traversed the Great Lakes for the past 400 years — ...

The City Council intends for Irvine to have one more library. Councilmembers recently affirmed the city will incorporate a central library into the sprawling Great Park development first approved in ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida that have significantly impacted the native mammal population. The python population likely became established after escaping breeding facilities ...

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...

Emma Stone is cosplaying Gwyneth Paltrow in Great Expectations. On Wednesday, October 22, the actress, 36, wore a green set from designer Donna Karan’s archives during her appearance on The Late Show ...

Emma Stone brought out her inner Estella yesterday on the streets of New York City, wearing a look that became synonymous with Gwyneth Paltrow’s iconic on and off screen wardrobe in the ’90s.