Constance Grady
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Constance Grady
Two critics (and YA fantasy fans) discuss Netflix’s messy, dour Shadow and Bone.
Our critics have wildly differing opinions about the movie. Will the Oscars?
In Akwaeki Emezi’s ferocious and kaleidoscopic novel, the real mystery is whether Vivek truly lived.
This terrific debut novel uses heists and alchemy to deconstruct immigrant ambition, striving, and sin.
Early Hollywood treated the cops as incompetent fools. Then everything changed.
The Rachel Hollis controversy points to bigger problems in white women’s self-help.
The book features a whimsical train, two pet mongooses, and existential dread.
Alderman explains how to build a world in a live Zoom interview with our book critic.
Our book critic recommends apocalyptic fiction and more.
Nigerian novelist Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji is ferocious and kaleidoscopic.