Constance Grady

Author Archive

  • Aug 6, 2025
    In book world, the summer of 2025 is officially the summer of Substack. Over the past few years, Substack has been slowly building a literary scene, one in which amateurs,...
  • Jun 4, 2025
    A small but curious sign of the deepening gender divide in our politically fraught times: Male beauty standards are getting really weird. In the latest salvo, young boys...
  • May 19, 2025
    When we look at the relationship between 73-year-old legendary football coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend and business partner, 24-year-old Jordon Hudson, it’s hard to...
  • Mar 24, 2025
    Disney’s new live-action Snow White, dogged by controversy after controversy, must have been cursed at birth by a wicked fairy (oops, wait, wrong fairy tale).
  • Mar 10, 2025
    The Great Gatsby is 100 years old this year, which feels right in a way. After all those years as a perennial mainstay of the American high school English curriculum, all those...
  • Feb 14, 2025
    For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless little testimonials from other writers that appear on the...
  • Feb 4, 2025
    It’s been 25 years since American Psycho slunk its way on to movie screens. Yet the film, starring Christian Bale as yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman, has never...
  • Jan 6, 2025
    The question has been hurtling through think pieces, op-eds, and ominous headlines over the past few years: Have American men stopped reading? Specifically, have they stopped reading...