Constance Grady
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Constance Grady
How do you sell America when no one agrees on what America is?
The bizarre conservative misunderstanding of The Lord of the Rings, explained.
Philip Pullman’s new book finishes the story The Golden Compass started.
The retro, cryptofascist aesthetic of all those ICE recruitment ads, explained.
Reckoning with Jane Austen and empire on her 250th anniversary.
Taylor Swift used to try to hide her ambition. In Life of a Showgirl, she’s done with that.
What studying hundreds of political assassinations has revealed.
The former Man Show host has gone from the least political voice in late night to a victim of the war on woke.
Trump wants to be a cultural tastemaker. The CIA did it first.
The weird lie animating the right-wing womanosphere.