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Constance Grady

@constancegrady.bsky.social
4.5K followers 708 following 844 posts

Writer. Culture, books, celebrity, and gender. Previously at Vox, other bylines at The Toast and The AV Club. Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.

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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
refamiliarizing myself with the plot of Verity in preparation for two of the finest actresses of their generation bringing it to movie screens everywhere
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI has come for DC’s anti-Trump wheatpasters now
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
the thing about a 10 Things musical is that the original film has such a strong soundtrack. it's up there with R+J for some of the best needledrops of its era, no?
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you have hung out with young kids lately, odds are good that the book they actually like reading is Dog Man: it's short, funny, and full of pictures. Right now, that's where the industry is aiming. www.vox.com/culture/4996...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Because for the past 20 years or so, middle-grade books have also been getting super long! So some people think that kids stopped reading because they stopped being able to find books that were actually suitable to their grade level.
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I am willing
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Rachel Chavkin hive rise up
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
had so many opinions about The Blue Heron I am forced to start a Letterboxd, having resisted lo these many years
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New Next Page! This month we have SUMMER READING RECS www.vox.com/next-page-ne...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
when your mind operates at the level beyond galaxy brain
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Found a new alternate timeline featuring Vice President Shirley Temple
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
People consistently want to feel that they are connecting with another human being when they experience art! That's something that the gradual adoption of the camera actually makes fairly clear. www.vox.com/culture/4906...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
People downgrade art they're told is AI-generated over art they're told is human-made, even if the labels are wrong. Sometimes that gets trotted out as proof that people are just being snobs about AI. But, I mean, what if people are just telling the truth? www.vox.com/culture/4906...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
kind of shocking how true this is. I can't stop thinking about it. theonion.com/name-one-mas...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
when the credit sequence was just a man's head floating in front of your second grade picture day backdrop … they used to make real television
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Journalists have been laundering that fake statistic for each other by copy/pasting it without attribution going back to at least 2007. But I asked publishing's industry trackers in the US and the UK, and they both told me it's untrue. www.vox.com/culture/3929...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My quest to kill this zombie statistic continues. People are constantly repeating that women buy 80% of fiction, but that statistic is based on nothing! It is probably made up!
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Periodic reminder that if you subscribe to Next Page, you get my hot takes on the new releases! e.g. I am the only critic who liked the new McInerney, and subscribers know why www.vox.com/next-page-ne...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
So the Anthropic copyright settlement website turned out to be extremely weird and glitchy! This encounter @maureenjohnsonbooks.com had is living rent free in my mind www.vox.com/culture/4878...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Lena not NOT going for the Taylor voice here
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
the rumors are true I fear, I did spend my wedding day reading
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
When ur job is responsible for not just RFK Jr but also traffic
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Skipping from “we should not glorify abuses of power merely because they are performed by women” to “all working women are uncool scam artists:” it’s an easier rhetorical move than you would think!
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Time to add girlboss to my list of progressive critiques of neoliberalism that get co-opted by antifeminists in every more bizarre ways
An article headlined “the myth of the independent girlboss”
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Join me for an Ask Me Anything about my story on embracing ugliness as its own virtue. On the r/iama subreddit, tomorrow at 12pm ET!! t.co/xECXCXK8Ub
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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.
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
No Ice rally in DC today
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Quite the specific stylistic choice here in C.K.'s final book
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
oh we're over clothing trends now, they said. we're really in the era of embracing timeless fashion that will never look dated. buy it for once, buy it for life!
The stupidest tiny triangular wool scarf in the world
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Only Connect stans do NOT accept
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
god when Crispin hits she hits theamericanscholar.org/what-is-an-a...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
My favorite niche drama just got hotter
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
imagine putting your co-byline on this graf this when your career since the 1990s has been entirely about railing against the excesses of the left
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
There's a new Next Page out today, and we're dipping into the fall prestige books! Mitfords, McEwan, and Lockwood, oh my www.vox.com/next-page-ne...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I forget how good Trilling is and then I read his essay on Mansfield Park. These bars! www.unz.com/Pub/Encounte...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
girl …
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The New York Times rolls over its Sodoku lineup to the next day too early, every single day
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Only Connect finally offered a mild critique of Connections in-episode and the nerds are buzzing
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
genuinely never been more excited to hate watch a movie
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I demand a movie about this operation
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Settling in for a good night at the theater
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
please, my obsessions … let them be to your profit www.vox.com/culture/3929...
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
my white whale is going to be convincing the paper of record to stop allowing its opinion writers to quote this zombie statistic without caveat
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Love this take on Tina Brown’s famous high-low Mix, from Michael M. Grynbaum
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Many red scrunchies in the audience at Heathers. Idk if they earned them tho
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Fwiw, I don't find Helena Kelly a particularly persuasive reader of Austen. In the same book, she argues that Austen's contemporary readers would have understood Colonel Brandon to be the secret father of his illegitimate ward, her chief evidence for this being that we never learn his first name.
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Fifty pages and several months later, Nina’s still throwing elbows
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The funniest part of Nina Stibbe’s (very gossipy) new memoir is that she goes out of her way to repeatedly murder Lionel “sombrero” Shriver
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
You could do a lot worse with your night than to go see Death of Classical put on Ghost Quartet at Green-wood Cemetery
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