Constance Grady
Culture writer for @voxdotcom. Bylines at The Toast and the A.V. Club. Not the Ugly Betty character. [email protected]
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This comedy of manners from 2012 perfectly anticipated the 2010s’ reckoning with misogyny
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. explores everyday misogyny with vicious precision.
We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2019. Here’s what we thought.
The Vox staff reviewed all the finalists in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a great writer. His new book The Water Dancer is not a great novel.
Coates’s debut novel has exquisite sentences and ideas, but the rest is a mess.
Netflix’s Timothée Chalamet vehicle The King is a humorless slog on the inhumanity of war
This movie really wants you to know it ain’t your daddy’s Shakespeare.
What do we do when the art we love was created by a monster?
I don’t know what to do with good art by predatory artists. So I asked some literary critics.
Harvey Weinstein’s night out looks a lot like the groundwork for a comeback
Weinstein’s been going out in public a lot lately.
How to protect your books with medieval curses
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Ellen DeGeneres, George W. Bush, and the death of uncritical niceness
Ellen built her brand on being nice to anyone, even George W. Bush. That brand might not be viable now.
Caroline Calloway, her "one-woman Fyre Fest," and her ex-best friend Natalie, explained
Influencer Caroline Calloway built her brand on an aspirational fairy tale. Now she’s famous for toxic dysfunction.
Taylor Swift’s explanation for not endorsing Hillary Clinton actually makes a lot of sense
It’s also extremely image-savvy.
Toni Morrison’s immortal legacy, explained in one passage
Morrison built the black American canon, both as a novelist and as an editor.
The Dayton, Ohio, shooter reportedly kept a "rape list" of potential victims
The Dayton shooter’s history of misogyny fits into a large and disturbing pattern.
"Art is dangerous": Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, and Sonia Sanchez in conversation
Three of our greatest living writers discuss Orlando, Muhammad Ali, and why they write.
The first guacamole recipe written in English came from a British pirate
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The Taylor Swift/Scooter Braun controversy, explained
It’s really about Kanye.
Why E. Jean Carroll doesn’t use the word "rape" to describe her accusations against Trump
"Every woman gets to choose her word."
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The language we have for talking about sexual violence is a mess, part 1000.
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Midnight Chicken is a cookbook that reads like a novel
In Ella Risbridger’s debut book, the prose is as delicious as the food.
Jim DeRogatis broke the R. Kelly story in 2000. Now he’s compiled a damning case against Kelly.
"We thought we’d nailed the story. And we thought he would stop hurting young women. And it continues for 19 years after that."