Constance Grady
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Woodside, NY, United States
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The big Elon Musk biography asks all the wrong questions
In Walter Isaacson’s buzzy new biography, Elon Musk emerges as a callous, chaos-loving man without empathy. → Read More
On Hulu’s The Other Black Girl, the hair is the point
The new show’s hair and wardrobe team explain the significance of these seemingly small choices. → Read More
The book of the year so far is Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds
Groff’s latest is an un-put-down-able story of survival. → Read More
The sincerity and rage of Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo’s Disney kid backstory is key to her music’s fury. → Read More
Zadie Smith on the problem of the good white woman
The Fraud, a Victorian novel for the post-Trump era, is elegant, flawed, and sharp as a knife. → Read More
Dealing With Dragons is the kind of book a kid builds their personality around
Patricia C. Wrede just published her first book in a decade. Here’s how she enchanted a generation. → Read More
A brief timeline of Britney Spears’s marriage to Sam Asghari
Where does Britney’s marriage and divorce fit in with the pop star’s conservatorship? → Read More
How does Elon Musk get away with it all?
The billionaire’s heroic image is built on media praise, breathless fans, and … romance novel tropes. → Read More
Publishing scammers are using AI to scale their grifts
Large language models are disrupting the publishing industry, from spam submissions to garbage books. → Read More
A reading guide for grownups who don’t read
Librarian secrets to getting into books for the very first time. → Read More
What the stories we tell about robots tell us about ourselves
From R.U.R. to Mrs. Davis, humans have feared — and identified with — robots for over a century. → Read More
2023’s best books (so far)
From shipwrecks to hijackings to sex comedies, these are the best books of the first half of 2023. → Read More
Broadway is awash in bad pop musicals pretending to be about feminism
Once Upon a One More Time is a lumpy slurry of Britney Spears, Cinderella, and Betty Friedan. For some reason, it’s part of a bigger trend. → Read More
When you can’t separate art from artist
Talking Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma with Claire Dederer. → Read More
In Lorrie Moore’s new book, a man and his dead ex-girlfriend go on a road trip
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home is weird, funny, gross, and tender. → Read More
Succession’s Kendall is Shakespeare’s Prince Hal gone terribly wrong
How Succession’s finale referenced Shakespeare to bring out Kendall’s crumpled ambitions. → Read More
In Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans, art students scramble for money and sex
The author’s second novel zooms in on what an artist should be. → Read More
The verdict in the Donald Trump-E. Jean Carroll case, explained
The E. Jean Carroll verdict illuminates the fraught history of the term’s legal definition. → Read More
Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse. Will it change anything?
E. Jean Carroll won a fraught victory in her civil case against the former president. → Read More
The return of the porn wars
How today’s fight over pornography is rooted in a 40-year-old feminist schism. → Read More