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Constance Grady

Constance Grady

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Constance Grady

    Culture
    Johnny Depp’s legal victory makes it clear the Me Too backlash has arrivedJohnny Depp’s legal victory makes it clear the Me Too backlash has arrived
    Culture

    Johnny Depp’s legal victory and the death of Roe v. Wade are part of the same toxic cultural movement.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    The Fortress of Solitude is a fraught and uneasy love letter to a vanished BrooklynThe Fortress of Solitude is a fraught and uneasy love letter to a vanished Brooklyn
    Culture

    In this lovely and heartbroken novel, neither superpowers nor true love can stop systemic racism.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    The Vox Book Club is going back to Fortress of Solitude, one of the best novels of the 2000sThe Vox Book Club is going back to Fortress of Solitude, one of the best novels of the 2000s
    Culture

    Spend May with Jonathan Lethem’s lovely and prescient novel of friendship, race, class, and superheroes.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    The author of Station Eleven wrote a new pandemic novelThe author of Station Eleven wrote a new pandemic novel
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    In Emily St. John Mandel’s new book Sea of Tranquility, the apocalypse is ongoing. So is life.

    By Constance Grady
    One Good Thing
    One Good Thing: Have you heard of this Shakespeare guy? Pretty good!One Good Thing: Have you heard of this Shakespeare guy? Pretty good!
    One Good Thing

    Juliet and her Romeo are dead, but Romeo and Juliet lives forever.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    The post-Hamilton era of historical musicals has begunThe post-Hamilton era of historical musicals has begun
    Culture

    With Suffs and Paradise Square, this season’s new musicals are reexamining the history books.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado knows where the bodies are buriedIn Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado knows where the bodies are buried
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    The Vox Book Club’s April pick is a tour de force short story collection.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    The author of When We Cease to Understand the World explains himselfThe author of When We Cease to Understand the World explains himself
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    Culture

    “We need fiction like we need water.”

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    With The Candy House, Pulitzer winner Jennifer Egan makes her case for the novelWith The Candy House, Pulitzer winner Jennifer Egan makes her case for the novel
    Culture

    The ambitious, kaleidoscopic follow-up to A Visit From the Goon Squad sticks the landing.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    Will Smith’s slap and Oscars ban, briefly explainedWill Smith’s slap and Oscars ban, briefly explained
    Culture

    What the American Oscars telecast cut from the Will Smith-Chris Rock confrontation.

    By Constance Grady