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Constance Grady

Constance Grady

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Constance Grady

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    Ask a Book Critic: Books to kick off the new yearAsk a Book Critic: Books to kick off the new year
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    Books that find joy in everyday life, to help you through the new year — or a bad breakup.

    By Constance Grady
    The pop culture that brought us joy in 2020
    Podcast
    Culture

    What 26 Vox staffers consumed this year to get them through the darkness.

    By Meredith Haggerty, Allegra Frank and 24 more
    25 cartoons to get obsessed with, now and forever
    Culture

    A guide to animated TV series you’ll fall in love with, from the family-friendly classics to some adult-only picks.

    By Alex Abad-Santos, Emily St. James and 4 more
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    One Good Thing

    Dylan Thomas’s prose poem will make your Zoom Christmas festive.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    RSVP now to talk Gideon the Ninth with Tamsyn Muir and the Vox Book ClubRSVP now to talk Gideon the Ninth with Tamsyn Muir and the Vox Book Club
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    This January, we’re talking lesbian necromancers in space.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    How a year of publishing protests rocked the industryHow a year of publishing protests rocked the industry
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    Publishing began 2020 with an explosion and ended with a contraction.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    The remixed genre tropes of Gideon the Ninth, explainedThe remixed genre tropes of Gideon the Ninth, explained
    Culture

    Enemies to lovers, And Then There Were None, and the other tropes of Tamsyn Muir’s genre-busting space opera.

    By Constance Grady
    The 15 best books our book critic read this year
    Culture

    From Piranesi to A Promised Land, 15 new books for understanding and surviving 2020.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    Taylor Swift, pop culture workhorseTaylor Swift, pop culture workhorse
    Culture

    With Evermore, Swift transforms her try-hard vibes from liability to asset.

    By Constance Grady
    Culture
    Susan Choi talks process, teenagers, and the infamously tricky ending of Trust ExerciseSusan Choi talks process, teenagers, and the infamously tricky ending of Trust Exercise
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    Culture

    The author isn’t sure how much she believes her own unreliable narrator.

    By Constance Grady