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Constance Grady

Constance Grady

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Constance Grady

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    Ask a Book Critic: Autumnal books to get you ready for fallAsk a Book Critic: Autumnal books to get you ready for fall
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    Vox’s book critic recommends campus novels to set the mood for virtual learning, and more.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    This September, the Vox Book Club returns with Susanna Clarke’s PiranesiThis September, the Vox Book Club returns with Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi
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    Spend September with the haunted, haunting Piranesi, from the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

    By Constance Grady
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    Still Mad is a sweeping, thrilling survey of the writers who built second-wave feminismStill Mad is a sweeping, thrilling survey of the writers who built second-wave feminism
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    The scholars who wrote Madwoman in the Attic return 42 years later, still mad.

    By Constance Grady
    20 years after Aaliyah’s death, her story only feels more tragic
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    R. Kelly groomed Aaliyah in plain sight, and the world let him.

    By Constance Grady
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    The Jennifer Lopez-Ben Affleck recoupling is the greatest gossip story we’ve had in yearsThe Jennifer Lopez-Ben Affleck recoupling is the greatest gossip story we’ve had in years
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    The rise and fall and rise again of Bennifer, explained.

    By Constance Grady
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    Mrs. March is a Hitchcock-meets-Highsmith novel about a woman behaving badlyMrs. March is a Hitchcock-meets-Highsmith novel about a woman behaving badly
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    The Upper East Side gets bloody in Virginia Feito’s vicious, gorgeous thriller.

    By Constance Grady
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    After a lost pandemic year, live theater is backAfter a lost pandemic year, live theater is back
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    The Public’s all-Black staging of Merry Wives is a giddy triumph.

    By Constance Grady
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    Ask a Book Critic: Help me love reading againAsk a Book Critic: Help me love reading again
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    Our book critic recommends books to get out of a reading rut and more.

    By Constance Grady
    How Gossip Girl broke the fantasy of being the world’s most special girl
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    The original Gossip Girl sold viewers a romantic fantasy — then proved the fantasy was always a lie.

    By Constance Grady
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    The new Pursuit of Love TV show means it’s time to remember the MitfordsThe new Pursuit of Love TV show means it’s time to remember the Mitfords
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    The family with three Nazis, two socialists, and a duchess, explained.

    By Constance Grady