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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Why Britney Spears’s fans are convinced she’s being held captive
The #FreeBritney movement, explained.
Meet the African goddess at the center of Beyoncé’s Black Is King
The divine imagery in Beyoncé’s new visual album goes all the way back to Lemonade.
Sandra Oh made history 3 times at the Golden Globes
Sandra Oh is the first actress of Asian descent in 39 years to win the Globe for best leading TV actress.
Fact-checking the alternate history and politics of Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham
President Jerry Brown?
John Lewis’s graphic memoir trilogy, March, tells the story of a lifetime of results and actions
March tells the story of John Lewis’s civil rights career in unforgettable pictures.
3 pieces of pop culture that explain John Lewis’s legacy
A pop culture primer on a lifetime of activism.
Get ready for juicy political gossip as the Vox Book Club reads Rodham
What if Hillary had never married Bill? Vox Book Club is about to find out.
Why the term "BIPOC" is so complicated, explained by linguists
Why there is no "one size fits all" language when it comes to talking about race.
A history of racism led to an implosion of the romance publishing world. Now can it change?
Romance Writers of America represented one of the sexiest and most lucrative genres in books. But writers of color say it didn’t represent them.
Black authors are on all the bestseller lists right now. But publishing doesn’t pay them enough.
A social media campaign shows whose stories publishers value — and whose they’re willing to pay for.
Brit Bennett’s breathtaking The Vanishing Half is a dark fairy tale about passing for white
In this new novel, one light-skinned twin marries a dark-skinned man. The other starts passing for white.
A reading list to understand police brutality in America
Buy the books on this reading list at black-owned stores.
The NFL has a message for players who knelt: "We were wrong"
The NFL just issued a statement saying it was wrong to censure players who protested police violence.
How 70 years of cop shows taught us to valorize the police
Early Hollywood treated the cops as incompetent fools. Then everything changed.
Taylor Swift used to be apolitical. Now she’s slamming Trump on Twitter.
Swift accuses Trump pf "stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency."
RSVP now: Nicole Cliffe and the Vox Book Club finish off The Secret History, live on Zoom
After a month of conversation, it’s time to talk murder, Bacchanalias, and liberal arts curriculums.
French author and serial killer expert revealed to be a serial liar
And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.
The Four Men Responsible For America's COVID-19 Test Disaster
The White House’s inability to track the disease as it spread across the nation crippled the government’s response and led to the worst disaster this country has faced in nearly a century
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This article from @7im is very helpful at clarifying exactly who in our public health administration failed to do their job and how.
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Look around, look around: Hamilton is coming to Disney+ on July 3
The Hamilton movie was slated to premiere in 2021. It just got moved up by 15 months.
War and Peace is not hard, it’s just long, and other advice on how to read the classics
Great books you can read in quarantine, organized by level of difficulty.