Constance Grady
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Constance Grady
Anne Washburn, the playwright behind Mr. Burns, explains herself: “It’s about the comfort of looking again.”
From surprise albums to Beychella to “Break My Soul”: Behind the singer’s 10-year journey to cultural dominance.
In The Year of Miracles, Ella Risbridger cooks through the end of the world.
How Tom Cruise went from superstar to laughingstock and back again.
The new adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, starring Dakota Johnson, swings wildly from dour to dull.
The new Election sequel shows how far we’ve come in handling ambitious women — and how far we have to go.
The queer canon should point us toward the future. We made a list of new, vibrant queer stories helping us get there.
A new novel paints a portrait of a world ruled by almighty algorithm.
Batuman’s second novel is shaggy, strange, and sweet.
The next Vox Book Club pick is The Immortal King Rao.