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Aaron Bady

Contributing Writer

Aaron Bady is a founding editor at Popula. He was an editor at The New Inquiry and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Pacific Standard, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland, California.

Back to Life understands the secret can be more powerful than the reveal
Back to Life.
Feature

Back to Life understands the secret can be more powerful than the reveal

Fire in Paradise is 40 minutes of terror
Paradise.
Feature

Fire in Paradise is 40 minutes of terror

How aristocrats ate prestige TV
Succession and The Sopranos.
Opinion

How aristocrats ate prestige TV

How Ready or Not escaped The Hunt's fate
Samara Weaving in Ready or Not.
Feature

How Ready or Not escaped The Hunt's fate

The problem with Succession's half-baked class politics
Cast of Succession on HBO.
Opinion

The problem with Succession's half-baked class politics

The anti-nostalgic power of Derry Girls
Derry Girls.
Feature

The anti-nostalgic power of Derry Girls

Superheroes, they're just like us
The Boys.
Feature

Superheroes, they're just like us

The future of Trumpism is more erudite — and just as frightening
Josh Hawley and President Trump.
Opinion

The future of Trumpism is more erudite — and just as frightening

Netflix's Taco Chronicles is deliciously predictable
A taco.
Feature

Netflix's Taco Chronicles is deliciously predictable

Why Stranger Things' nostalgia isn't quite as magical in season 3
Stranger Things.
Feature

Why Stranger Things' nostalgia isn't quite as magical in season 3

What's missing in Spider-Man: Far from Home
Spider-Man.
Analysis

What's missing in Spider-Man: Far from Home

Roger Ailes and the liberal myth of the conservative genius
Russell Crowe.
Opinion

Roger Ailes and the liberal myth of the conservative genius

How Big Little Lies subverts the murder mystery
Big Little Lies Meryl
Feature

How Big Little Lies subverts the murder mystery

What The Last Black Man in San Francisco, a movie ostensibly about gentrification, leaves out about gentrification
Image from The Last Black Man in San Francisco poster.
Opinion

What The Last Black Man in San Francisco, a movie ostensibly about gentrification, leaves out about gentrification

The danger of knowing one thing about the Central Park Five
Central Park Five suspects.
Opinion

The danger of knowing one thing about the Central Park Five

The Deadwood movie shows there's still a big difference between films and prestige TV
A scene from Deadwood.
Feature

The Deadwood movie shows there's still a big difference between films and prestige TV

Is Chernobyl historically accurate about the things that matter?
Jared Harris.
Feature

Is Chernobyl historically accurate about the things that matter?

What Fleabag's 'hot priest' storyline gets so right about sex and love
A scene from Fleabag.
Feature

What Fleabag's 'hot priest' storyline gets so right about sex and love

Game of Thrones' last big reveal
Game of Thrones.
Feature

Game of Thrones' last big reveal