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Constance Grady

Constance Grady

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Constance Grady

    Culture
    The one Jane Austen scene people are still arguing aboutThe one Jane Austen scene people are still arguing about
    Culture

    Reckoning with Jane Austen and empire on her 250th anniversary.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    Taylor Swift is done pretending she doesn’t absolutely love this life Taylor Swift is done pretending she doesn’t absolutely love this life 
    Culture

    Taylor Swift used to try to hide her ambition. In Life of a Showgirl, she’s done with that.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    A political violence scholar explains what the furor over Charlie Kirk’s killing is missingA political violence scholar explains what the furor over Charlie Kirk’s killing is missing
    Culture

    What studying hundreds of political assassinations has revealed.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    How Jimmy Kimmel became Trump’s nemesisHow Jimmy Kimmel became Trump’s nemesis
    Culture

    The former Man Show host has gone from the least political voice in late night to a victim of the war on woke.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    The last time the US waged a propaganda war on the artsThe last time the US waged a propaganda war on the arts
    Culture

    Trump wants to be a cultural tastemaker. The CIA did it first.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    A MAGA influencer says there’s no space for her in women’s media. Is she right?A MAGA influencer says there’s no space for her in women’s media. Is she right?
    Culture

    The weird lie animating the right-wing womanosphere.

    By Constance Grady
    The scandalous literary classic we’ve never stopped arguing about
    Culture

    The novel published 70 years ago that still explains America.

    By Constance Grady
    How The Fellowship of the Ring explains post-9/11 America
    Culture

    The blockbuster came out just three months after 9/11. The coincidence reshaped everything.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    Sydney Sweeney and the unsettling legacy of the blonde bombshellSydney Sweeney and the unsettling legacy of the blonde bombshell
    Culture

    How Marilyn Monroe and Jean Harlow explain the star’s bizarre jeans controversy.

    By Constance Grady
    The sad young literary man is alive and well on Substack
    Vox Book Club

    On literati Substack, it’s still 2005.

    By Constance Grady

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