
Constance Grady
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Vox’s book critic recommends campus novels to set the mood for virtual learning, and more.


Spend September with the haunted, haunting Piranesi, from the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.


The scholars who wrote Madwoman in the Attic return 42 years later, still mad.

R. Kelly groomed Aaliyah in plain sight, and the world let him.


The rise and fall and rise again of Bennifer, explained.


The Upper East Side gets bloody in Virginia Feito’s vicious, gorgeous thriller.


The Public’s all-Black staging of Merry Wives is a giddy triumph.


Our book critic recommends books to get out of a reading rut and more.

The original Gossip Girl sold viewers a romantic fantasy — then proved the fantasy was always a lie.
The family with three Nazis, two socialists, and a duchess, explained.