Archive - Bad Taste

On the joys of being evil in Disney’s Cruella

Jun 12, 2021 •

May 2021

Two weeks’ supply in a day

Fashion, excess and cocaine decor in Netflix’s Halston

May 23, 2021 •

I still dream of Orgonon

On Olivia Laing‘s Everybody: A Book About Freedom

May 16, 2021 •

Y2k is dead! Long live the 2000s!

On Saint Laurent's invocation of the indie-disco

May 7, 2021 •

April 2021

Riding with the Hard Crowd

On writing the dead back to life with Rachel Kushner

Apr 23, 2021 •

Disaster and celebrity

On fame, fandom and artifice in Sam McKinniss’s Country Western

Apr 16, 2021 •

The prettiness of vice

On Netflix's Madame Claude

Apr 9, 2021 •

It’s a Match!

On the science of desire in Netflix’s The One and Katherine Angel’s Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Apr 2, 2021 •

March 2021

Pleasure like a future pain

On Annie Ernaux’s Simple Passion

Mar 26, 2021 •

Chemtrails Over the Country Club

On sadness and wildness in Lana Del Rey’s new record

Mar 19, 2021 •

This account is bugged

On Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts (and a little on Roisin Kiberd's The Disconnect)

Mar 12, 2021 •

The bomb in our brains

On Adam Curtis's Can't Get You Out of My Head

Mar 5, 2021 •

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