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Constance Grady

Constance Grady

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Constance Grady

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    Who deserves a book deal?Who deserves a book deal?
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    As former Trump officials and other polarizing figures seek book deals, publishing is caught in a generational battle that’s becoming an existential crisis.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    How Gold Diggers finds the horror in petty high school betrayalHow Gold Diggers finds the horror in petty high school betrayal
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    In the Vox Book Club’s May pick, sin is petty and low-stakes. That’s what makes the book work.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    RSVP now to talk Gold Diggers with Sanjena Sathian and the Vox Book ClubRSVP now to talk Gold Diggers with Sanjena Sathian and the Vox Book Club
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    Our May book features alchemy, heists, and diaspora politics.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    Novelist Akwaeke Emezi talks writing a nonbinary novelNovelist Akwaeke Emezi talks writing a nonbinary novel
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    Culture

    The author of The Death of Vivek Oji spoke with the Vox Book Club for our April live event.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    Rachel Cusk’s lovely, vicious Second Place seethes with the desires of a woman on the vergeRachel Cusk’s lovely, vicious Second Place seethes with the desires of a woman on the verge
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    The Second Place is Cusk’s first novel since the breakaway success of her Outline trilogy.

    By Constance Grady
    An oral history of the Dawson crying GIF and its outsized legacy
    Culture

    How Crying Dawson ascended to “the Mount Rushmore of GIFs.”

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    The Vox Book Club May pick features heists, alchemy, and the Indian American diasporaThe Vox Book Club May pick features heists, alchemy, and the Indian American diaspora
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    Join us in reading Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathian’s gripping debut novel.

    By Constance Grady
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    The rape allegations against Philip Roth’s biographer are a damning condemnation of publishingThe rape allegations against Philip Roth’s biographer are a damning condemnation of publishing
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    The Blake Bailey story shows publishing’s institutions once again working to protect men.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    7 winners and 4 losers from the deeply eccentric 2021 Oscars7 winners and 4 losers from the deeply eccentric 2021 Oscars
    Culture

    A fantastically unpredictable show ended on a huge bummer of an anticlimax.

    By Emily St. James, Constance Grady and 2 more
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    4 ways the 2021 Oscars made history4 ways the 2021 Oscars made history
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    Major milestones from a historically weird Academy Awards.

    By Constance Grady and Aja Romano