Constance Grady
@constancegrady.bsky.social
Senior correspondent at Vox. Culture, books, celebrity, and gender. Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.
I am interested in the resonances between the fantasy of leaving the country and the fantasy of the trad wife! I wrote about it here www.vox.com/culture/4732...
American women want to opt out
More want to leave the country than ever before. That’s not the only way they’re escaping.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I am interested in the resonances between the fantasy of leaving the country and the fantasy of the trad wife! I wrote about it here www.vox.com/culture/4732...
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"We often talk about the idea of fleeing America and its feeble social safety net as a liberating, progressive act...But the idea of escaping the work-life balance trap has darker echoes in contemporary American pop culture"
Great piece from @constancegrady.bsky.social. www.vox.com/culture/4732...
Great piece from @constancegrady.bsky.social. www.vox.com/culture/4732...
American women want to opt out
More want to leave the country than ever before. That’s not the only way they’re escaping.
www.vox.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"We often talk about the idea of fleeing America and its feeble social safety net as a liberating, progressive act...But the idea of escaping the work-life balance trap has darker echoes in contemporary American pop culture"
Great piece from @constancegrady.bsky.social. www.vox.com/culture/4732...
Great piece from @constancegrady.bsky.social. www.vox.com/culture/4732...
Best! Books! www.vox.com/culture/4723...
The 10 best books of 2025
Our book critic picks the best books of the year.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Best! Books! www.vox.com/culture/4723...
Quite the specific stylistic choice here in C.K.'s final book
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Quite the specific stylistic choice here in C.K.'s final book
When I was in college I would binge-read Sophie Kinsella books all the way through finals week and into vacation as my reward for all the studying. She understood how to write a novel as light and frothy as a bubble bath. What a loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...
Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55
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December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
When I was in college I would binge-read Sophie Kinsella books all the way through finals week and into vacation as my reward for all the studying. She understood how to write a novel as light and frothy as a bubble bath. What a loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...
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"He cannot just be president. He also has to be a good TV star. He has to win the approval of the culturati, which is the one thing he will never quite get." - @constancegrady.bsky.social
The Kennedy Center Honors continue Trump’s vengeance on liberal Hollywood
Sunday’s awards exemplify MAGA’s politics of resentment.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"He cannot just be president. He also has to be a good TV star. He has to win the approval of the culturati, which is the one thing he will never quite get." - @constancegrady.bsky.social
Thinking about Bugonia (which slaps) and how much it weirdly reminds me of Homeland s1. Something about the intimacy between two people trying to convince each other of a specific picture of the world, and the audience unable to determine which worldview is correct — there's a lot of power there.
December 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thinking about Bugonia (which slaps) and how much it weirdly reminds me of Homeland s1. Something about the intimacy between two people trying to convince each other of a specific picture of the world, and the audience unable to determine which worldview is correct — there's a lot of power there.
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Loved this @constancegrady.bsky.social joint on Hamnet, Hamlet, and the debate over "grief porn." www.vox.com/culture/4714...
The debate over Hamnet, explained
Is Hamnet great art or grief porn? It’s complicated.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Loved this @constancegrady.bsky.social joint on Hamnet, Hamlet, and the debate over "grief porn." www.vox.com/culture/4714...
I am weighing in on the Hamnet grief porn debate www.vox.com/culture/4714...
The debate over Hamnet, explained
Is Hamnet great art or grief porn? It’s complicated.
www.vox.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I am weighing in on the Hamnet grief porn debate www.vox.com/culture/4714...
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ICE is trying to claim the power to decide who gets to be a part of America, and their ads give us a glimpse into who they believe America is.
Check out the full video at patreon.com/vox.
Check out the full video at patreon.com/vox.
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
ICE is trying to claim the power to decide who gets to be a part of America, and their ads give us a glimpse into who they believe America is.
Check out the full video at patreon.com/vox.
Check out the full video at patreon.com/vox.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
What a legacy he had.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
What a legacy he had.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
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November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
What a legacy he had.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
What a legacy he had.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
oh we're over clothing trends now, they said. we're really in the era of embracing timeless fashion that will never look dated. buy it for once, buy it for life!
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
oh we're over clothing trends now, they said. we're really in the era of embracing timeless fashion that will never look dated. buy it for once, buy it for life!
This very good take makes me think that on occassions where the penultimate flashback episode is the best of the season (e.g. The Rook, the worst show I have ever loved), it's a tell that the main mystery is bad www.vulture.com/article/penu...
Death to the Penultimate Flashback Episode
Why do so many shows keep making episodes that feel like unnecessary homework?
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November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This very good take makes me think that on occassions where the penultimate flashback episode is the best of the season (e.g. The Rook, the worst show I have ever loved), it's a tell that the main mystery is bad www.vulture.com/article/penu...
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!!!