Constance Grady
@constancegrady.bsky.social
Senior correspondent at Vox. Culture, books, celebrity, and gender. Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.
I see that pop culture discourse finally hit bluesky, only to take the form of the most annoying form of pop culture discourse on Twitter in 2019.
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I see that pop culture discourse finally hit bluesky, only to take the form of the most annoying form of pop culture discourse on Twitter in 2019.
A film you've seen more than seven times with a GIF
November 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A film you've seen more than seven times with a GIF
back on my bullshit about what bad nerds these people are www.vox.com/culture/4668...
The right is obsessed with The Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.
The bizarre conservative misunderstanding of The Lord of the Rings, explained.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
back on my bullshit about what bad nerds these people are www.vox.com/culture/4668...
god when Crispin hits she hits theamericanscholar.org/what-is-an-a...
October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
god when Crispin hits she hits theamericanscholar.org/what-is-an-a...
My favorite niche drama just got hotter
October 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
My favorite niche drama just got hotter
Honestly this is the most beautifully written investigation of gooning a person could hope to read harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
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October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Honestly this is the most beautifully written investigation of gooning a person could hope to read harpers.org/archive/2025...
Philip Pullman's new book finishing up Lyra's story came out yesterday! I wrote about how Pullman fits into the past few decades of American book banning www.vox.com/culture/4659...
How the new His Dark Materials spinoff series explains the book-banning wars
Philip Pullman’s new book finishes the story The Golden Compass started.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Philip Pullman's new book finishing up Lyra's story came out yesterday! I wrote about how Pullman fits into the past few decades of American book banning www.vox.com/culture/4659...
imagine putting your co-byline on this graf this when your career since the 1990s has been entirely about railing against the excesses of the left
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
imagine putting your co-byline on this graf this when your career since the 1990s has been entirely about railing against the excesses of the left
There's a new Next Page out today, and we're dipping into the fall prestige books! Mitfords, McEwan, and Lockwood, oh my www.vox.com/next-page-ne...
October 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There's a new Next Page out today, and we're dipping into the fall prestige books! Mitfords, McEwan, and Lockwood, oh my www.vox.com/next-page-ne...
What are some good literary essays you've read recently? (Asking for a newsletter.)
October 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What are some good literary essays you've read recently? (Asking for a newsletter.)
I did a close reading of those weird ICE recruitment ads to see how they're selling themselves www.vox.com/culture/4646...
How ICE sells itself
The retro, cryptofascist aesthetic of all those ICE recruitment ads, explained.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I did a close reading of those weird ICE recruitment ads to see how they're selling themselves www.vox.com/culture/4646...
Tommy Orange an official Macarthur genius!!!
October 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Tommy Orange an official Macarthur genius!!!
It is Jane Austen Appreciation Year always in my heart, but especially this year, when she turns a sunny 250 years old. To celebrate, I went digging through Mansfield Park to learn about what we know about what Austen thought of slavery. www.vox.com/culture/4639...
The weirdly modern Jane Austen debate we still haven’t figured out
Reckoning with Jane Austen and empire on her 250th anniversary.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It is Jane Austen Appreciation Year always in my heart, but especially this year, when she turns a sunny 250 years old. To celebrate, I went digging through Mansfield Park to learn about what we know about what Austen thought of slavery. www.vox.com/culture/4639...
To me, the most interesting thing about Life of a Showgirl is how plainly it features Taylor saying that actually, she loves being famous. I wrote about it here www.vox.com/culture/4637...
Taylor Swift is done pretending she doesn’t absolutely love this life
Taylor Swift used to try to hide her ambition. In Life of a Showgirl, she’s done with that.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
To me, the most interesting thing about Life of a Showgirl is how plainly it features Taylor saying that actually, she loves being famous. I wrote about it here www.vox.com/culture/4637...
I did not expect Taylor to sing the lyric “it’s kind of making me wet,” but it does seem right that she sings it wrt petty vengeance, her truest love
October 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I did not expect Taylor to sing the lyric “it’s kind of making me wet,” but it does seem right that she sings it wrt petty vengeance, her truest love
I forget how good Trilling is and then I read his essay on Mansfield Park. These bars! www.unz.com/Pub/Encounte...
October 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I forget how good Trilling is and then I read his essay on Mansfield Park. These bars! www.unz.com/Pub/Encounte...
oh no I remembered the existence of the song Finishing the Hat and now I am useless for the afternoon
September 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
oh no I remembered the existence of the song Finishing the Hat and now I am useless for the afternoon
All these think pieces about how the acotar and related are actually revolutionary because they're the "only" fantasy to center women and their desires makes me so angry. Like women don't deserve the ALREADY EXTANT fantasy novels that center them and their desires AND have decent sentences.
September 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
All these think pieces about how the acotar and related are actually revolutionary because they're the "only" fantasy to center women and their desires makes me so angry. Like women don't deserve the ALREADY EXTANT fantasy novels that center them and their desires AND have decent sentences.
I talked with a criminology scholar on why focusing on the political leanings of an individual assassin is a red herring www.vox.com/culture/4618...
A political violence scholar explains what the furor over Charlie Kirk’s killing is missing
What studying hundreds of political assassinations has revealed.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I talked with a criminology scholar on why focusing on the political leanings of an individual assassin is a red herring www.vox.com/culture/4618...
I delved into the history of Jimmy Kimmel's feud with Trump, and how the guy from The Man Show became the guy pissing off the president www.vox.com/culture/4619...
How Jimmy Kimmel became Trump’s nemesis
The former Man Show host has gone from the least political voice in late night to a victim of the war on woke.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I delved into the history of Jimmy Kimmel's feud with Trump, and how the guy from The Man Show became the guy pissing off the president www.vox.com/culture/4619...
I spent a couple weeks researching the cold war CIA and came away ready to believe that absolutely anything can be a CIA front www.vox.com/culture/4612...
Trump wants to be a cultural tastemaker. The CIA did it first.
The CIA spent decades selling American art to European intellectuals.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I spent a couple weeks researching the cold war CIA and came away ready to believe that absolutely anything can be a CIA front www.vox.com/culture/4612...
The New York Times rolls over its Sodoku lineup to the next day too early, every single day
September 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The New York Times rolls over its Sodoku lineup to the next day too early, every single day
Only Connect finally offered a mild critique of Connections in-episode and the nerds are buzzing
September 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Only Connect finally offered a mild critique of Connections in-episode and the nerds are buzzing
Whatever else The Paper is, it's a nice reminder of how good The Office crew is at keeping their internal worldbuilding to the pacing of a documentary. Especially after so many years of other mockumentary sitcoms forcing sitcom beats into a talking head format.
September 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Whatever else The Paper is, it's a nice reminder of how good The Office crew is at keeping their internal worldbuilding to the pacing of a documentary. Especially after so many years of other mockumentary sitcoms forcing sitcom beats into a talking head format.
my god, the cold open of this season of GBBO is truly unbearably long
I do respect Prue's masterful refusal to commit though
I do respect Prue's masterful refusal to commit though
September 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
my god, the cold open of this season of GBBO is truly unbearably long
I do respect Prue's masterful refusal to commit though
I do respect Prue's masterful refusal to commit though