Constance Grady
@constancegrady.bsky.social
Senior correspondent at Vox. Culture, books, celebrity, and gender. Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.
wow y'all weren't lying when you said the new wuthering heights was smooth-brained, huh
February 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
wow y'all weren't lying when you said the new wuthering heights was smooth-brained, huh
I certainly would not have guessed circa 1997 that he would be the one from the original cast of Buffy who would be the lead on a network show for all but two of the last 30 years
I think this is probably fine - Boreanaz is a reliable actor who can be situationally funny and has even played a (vampire) private eye before. But I think I’d be more excited if NBC had gone a little outside the box, as we were all talking about a month ago.
David Boreanaz to Star in NBC’s ‘Rockford Files’ Reboot
The former ‘SEAL Team,’ ‘Bones’ and ‘Angel’ star will take on a role first played by James Garner.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:36 PM
I certainly would not have guessed circa 1997 that he would be the one from the original cast of Buffy who would be the lead on a network show for all but two of the last 30 years
they never leave a girl a little subtext to have fun writing about
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM
they never leave a girl a little subtext to have fun writing about
I wrote about how the roots of the right's obsession with "AWFULs" can be found on the left www.vox.com/culture/4789...
How the left taught the right to hate white women
How Karen became AWFUL.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
I wrote about how the roots of the right's obsession with "AWFULs" can be found on the left www.vox.com/culture/4789...
JVDB had such a phenomenal second act to his career. He was so funny and so sharp about tweaking the WB years in a way no one expected from him. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
James Van Der Beek, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Star, Dies at 48
James Van Der Beek, who was known for playing Dawson Leary on "Dawson's Creek" and for numerous other TV and film roles, has died. He was 48.
variety.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
JVDB had such a phenomenal second act to his career. He was so funny and so sharp about tweaking the WB years in a way no one expected from him. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
I wrote about the Bad Bunny halftime show, and whether the vibe shift ever really happened www.vox.com/culture/4786...
Woke isn’t dead. Bad Bunny’s halftime show proved it.
Maybe the right didn’t capture the culture as much as they thought.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I wrote about the Bad Bunny halftime show, and whether the vibe shift ever really happened www.vox.com/culture/4786...
I for one would be having more fun of if I didn’t have to keep writing feminism 101 explainers of why this kind of thing is bad
JD Vance on Kaitlyn Collins asking Trump how he feels about Epstein survivors:
“Why does it always have to be so antagonistic? Have some fun. You can’t always take yourself too seriously.”
So according to JD a journalist should have fun asking questions about sexual abuse victims.
“Why does it always have to be so antagonistic? Have some fun. You can’t always take yourself too seriously.”
So according to JD a journalist should have fun asking questions about sexual abuse victims.
February 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I for one would be having more fun of if I didn’t have to keep writing feminism 101 explainers of why this kind of thing is bad
I can never get over how funny the opening of Wuthering Heights is. Lockwood's inner monologue is all "Hello, Heathcliff! Like you, I am hot and brooding, so you and I will have A LOT to talk about ;)"
February 4, 2026 at 1:21 AM
I can never get over how funny the opening of Wuthering Heights is. Lockwood's inner monologue is all "Hello, Heathcliff! Like you, I am hot and brooding, so you and I will have A LOT to talk about ;)"
This is really well done biographical criticism (trigger warning like all get out) www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...
www.eruditorumpress.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
This is really well done biographical criticism (trigger warning like all get out) www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
As the Epstein files keep dribbling out with more and more names, I keep thinking about Tina Brown's private jet theory of the world — namely, that powerful people will put up with a lot of shit if it means they get to fly private tinabrown.substack.com/p/after-flyi...
February 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
As the Epstein files keep dribbling out with more and more names, I keep thinking about Tina Brown's private jet theory of the world — namely, that powerful people will put up with a lot of shit if it means they get to fly private tinabrown.substack.com/p/after-flyi...
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
Ash Parrish
www.ashparrish.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
ESJ really popping off with this one episodes.ghost.io/vibe-shift/?...
The vibes aren't shifting
Why the right-wing effort to change the narrative is already flailing.
episodes.ghost.io
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
ESJ really popping off with this one episodes.ghost.io/vibe-shift/?...
Heated Rivalry is not quite my ministry, BUT I am delighted to have a chance to talk about why male/male romance is so popular with so many women www.vox.com/culture/4750...
Why is America so horny for gay hockey jocks?
What Heated Rivalry and gay hockey smut can tell us about ourselves.
www.vox.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Heated Rivalry is not quite my ministry, BUT I am delighted to have a chance to talk about why male/male romance is so popular with so many women www.vox.com/culture/4750...
My boring take on Marty Supreme is that if the film is going to build two emotional turning points around ping-pong games, it should actually do the sports movie thing of teaching the audience how to watch ping-pong.
January 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
My boring take on Marty Supreme is that if the film is going to build two emotional turning points around ping-pong games, it should actually do the sports movie thing of teaching the audience how to watch ping-pong.
Once you start thinking about how many pieces of technology were developed to share dubiously consensual pictures of women's bodies, you can't stop seeing it. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4747...
Grok’s nonconsensual porn problem is part of a long, gross legacy
Elon Musk claims tech needs a “spicy mode” to dominate. Is he right?
www.vox.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Once you start thinking about how many pieces of technology were developed to share dubiously consensual pictures of women's bodies, you can't stop seeing it. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4747...
No Ice rally in DC today
January 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
No Ice rally in DC today
I'm interested that both MTG and Erika Kirk are aiming to play the public role of "forgiving Christian woman" right now. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4744...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I'm interested that both MTG and Erika Kirk are aiming to play the public role of "forgiving Christian woman" right now. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4744...
The first thing I did when I woke up this morning was look up this @joshuakeating.bsky.social piece from last month to understand what happened last night. www.vox.com/politics/470...
Why is the US on the verge of war with Venezuela?
The five biggest questions about a massive military buildup.
www.vox.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:39 PM
The first thing I did when I woke up this morning was look up this @joshuakeating.bsky.social piece from last month to understand what happened last night. www.vox.com/politics/470...
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.
www.vox.com
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
www.nytimes.com
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...