Constance Grady

she has bars

So many people who think they have the chops to write Who Goes Nazi "but updated for today!!!," so few who actually do.

ohhhh this backstory is new to me!

had to do a little light search and scroll to see what people were subposting angrily about, we're so fucking back

Kitty Kelley was assigned a review of my Judy Blume biography, but did she read it? The best-selling biographer of Sinatra and Jackie O. filled her review of my book with invented quotations, possible hallucinations, and assorted Mad Libs

This is such a frustrating thing to see when there are so few outlets for book reviews left. Just a waste of precious space and resources. open.substack.com/pub/markoppe...

PSA: Apparently someone is reaching out to authors promising them feature coverage in the Vox Book Club in exchange for cash.

Authors: This is not us! We do not do pay to play! Be careful, keep an eye on your cash, and check the domain name if anyone emails you out of the blue.

What the arrest of former Prince Andrew can teach us about power and abuse The British royal was once his mother’s favorite. Now, his friendship with Epstein has led to his downfall.

I did a quick rundown on former prince Andrew's decades of scandals, and why Charles is not interested in protecting him the way their mother was www.vox.com/culture/4797...

heroic valiance! (also you're totally correct about JVDB's commitment to earnestness being the most appealing part of the character)

There's something about the sheer volume of defenders that leads casual observers to feel that the story is ambiguous/sudsy/funny in a way that, once you start looking at the evidence, it becomes quite clear it is not.

Said it before and I'll say it again: I have written about a lot of famous sexual predators, and the response I got from people who were ostensibly Depp fans was specific and targeted in a way I had not seen before then, but recognized at once with Baldoni.

posting this … braver than the troops

Tarantino for the girls

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a million times edgier than Emerald Fennell’s For all its provocations, the film has more in common with a Nicholas Sparks book.

please, my Wuthering Heights thoughts … there are so many of them … www.vox.com/culture/4793...

wow y'all weren't lying when you said the new wuthering heights was smooth-brained, huh

the man needs a new private jet I guess

I certainly would not have guessed circa 1997 that he would be the one from the original cast of Buffy who would be the lead on a network show for all but two of the last 30 years

not to mention "making us sympathetic to poor people"

they never leave a girl a little subtext to have fun writing about

How the left taught the right to hate white women How Karen became AWFUL.

I wrote about how the roots of the right's obsession with "AWFULs" can be found on the left www.vox.com/culture/4789...

There’s a lot of horror in this book, but I genuinely think the most bloodchilling passage is the part where Linton Heathcliff starts gloating that all his wife’s money belongs to him now, so he can use it to abuse her.

Although that made the streaming versions that couldn't even license the theme song awfully uncanny

An oral history of the Dawson crying GIF and its outsized legacy How Crying Dawson ascended to “the Mount Rushmore of GIFs.”

When I wrote this story a few years ago, the main thing everyone I talked to said was that JVDB was always fully committed, whether he was playing a breakup scene with utter seriousness, or mocking the breakup scene 20 years later. Not everyone would have gone so hard! www.vox.com/culture/2236...

James Van Der Beek, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Star, Dies at 48 James Van Der Beek, who was known for playing Dawson Leary on "Dawson's Creek" and for numerous other TV and film roles, has died. He was 48.

JVDB had such a phenomenal second act to his career. He was so funny and so sharp about tweaking the WB years in a way no one expected from him. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Woke isn’t dead. Bad Bunny’s halftime show proved it. Maybe the right didn’t capture the culture as much as they thought.

I wrote about the Bad Bunny halftime show, and whether the vibe shift ever really happened www.vox.com/culture/4786...

Out here trying to write something new and exciting about feminism, but first I have to handle the VP telling reporters to smile, sweetheart

I for one would be having more fun of if I didn’t have to keep writing feminism 101 explainers of why this kind of thing is bad

I can never get over how funny the opening of Wuthering Heights is. Lockwood's inner monologue is all "Hello, Heathcliff! Like you, I am hot and brooding, so you and I will have A LOT to talk about ;)"

The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...

This is really well done biographical criticism (trigger warning like all get out) www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...

As the Epstein files keep dribbling out with more and more names, I keep thinking about Tina Brown's private jet theory of the world — namely, that powerful people will put up with a lot of shit if it means they get to fly private tinabrown.substack.com/p/after-flyi...