Alana Pockros
@apockros.bsky.social
engagement & editing at The Nation and Cleveland Review of Books; criticism, essays, and contact info: alanapockros.com
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Alana Pockros
@apockros.bsky.social
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Illness Took My Mother’s Independence, but It Gave Us Something Precious
nytimes.com
Bared my soul in the @nytimes.com magazine. It’s about looking at art, my mother, and what happens when you practice the difficult task of patience.
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"Just like a Möbius strip, we might be sliced down our middles, even split in half. But the bind that holds us together will always stay intact," writes @apockros.bsky.social.
Catherine Lacey’s Missed Connections
In her most personal work, The Möbius Book, Lacey uses a devastating moment of heartbreak to ruminate on the messy intersections between life and writing.
www.thenation.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Just like a Möbius strip, we might be sliced down our middles, even split in half. But the bind that holds us together will always stay intact," writes @apockros.bsky.social.
I wrote about Sorry, Baby, Materialists, and our current climate of sexual politics for @thepointmag.bsky.social!
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In on the Joke | The Point Magazine
This past winter, the morning after arriving back in New York from Sundance Film Festival, I sat on my couch, eyes bleary and dry from […]
thepointmag.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I wrote about Sorry, Baby, Materialists, and our current climate of sexual politics for @thepointmag.bsky.social!
thepointmag.com/forms-of-lif...
thepointmag.com/forms-of-lif...
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New on Forms of Life, @apockros.bsky.social on what “Sorry, Baby” understands about our current climate of sexual politics that “Materialists” doesn’t:
In on the Joke | The Point Magazine
This past winter, the morning after arriving back in New York from Sundance Film Festival, I sat on my couch, eyes bleary and dry from […]
thepointmag.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New on Forms of Life, @apockros.bsky.social on what “Sorry, Baby” understands about our current climate of sexual politics that “Materialists” doesn’t:
Bared my soul in the @nytimes.com magazine. It’s about looking at art, my mother, and what happens when you practice the difficult task of patience.
Illness Took My Mother’s Independence, but It Gave Us Something Precious
nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Bared my soul in the @nytimes.com magazine. It’s about looking at art, my mother, and what happens when you practice the difficult task of patience.
Reposted by Alana Pockros
REVIEW @apockros.bsky.social “The first thing one will notice in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, ‘The Room Next Door’ (2024) …is that it both preserves this formula and subverts it in crucial ways.” #cinema thepointmag.com/criticism/al...
Almodóvar’s Women | The Point Magazine
If you are a leading woman in a Pedro Almodóvar film, your life will not be frictionless.
thepointmag.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
REVIEW @apockros.bsky.social “The first thing one will notice in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, ‘The Room Next Door’ (2024) …is that it both preserves this formula and subverts it in crucial ways.” #cinema thepointmag.com/criticism/al...
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This is Jessie Hoffman. Louisiana plans to execute him tomorrow using nitrogen hypoxia, a profoundly experimental method that has only been used 4x in the US (or anywhere). In plainer language, this means the state will gas him to death.
March 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is Jessie Hoffman. Louisiana plans to execute him tomorrow using nitrogen hypoxia, a profoundly experimental method that has only been used 4x in the US (or anywhere). In plainer language, this means the state will gas him to death.
Wrote about the king of camp's newest film, which kind of flew under the radar IMO:
“For this story of female friendship to move propulsively on the fuel of reliance and conviction, rather than deception, came as something of a welcome but nearly unbelievable surprise.” New online, @apockros.bsky.social on “The Room Next Door”:
Almodóvar’s Women | The Point Magazine
If you are a leading woman in a Pedro Almodóvar film, your life will not be frictionless. You will have a terminal illness. Or if […]
thepointmag.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Wrote about the king of camp's newest film, which kind of flew under the radar IMO:
One of the funnier things I’ve edited
Bryan Johnson and his longevity business represent how tech money, scientific half-truths, and optimization culture all converge into a new religion for those wealthy enough to worship at its altar. Here's a dispatch from his summit.
How I Didn’t Die: My Day at Bryan Johnson’s Immortality Summit
It turns out that optimizing yourself like artificial intelligence not only won’t ensure that you live forever. It is also very expensive.
www.thenation.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One of the funnier things I’ve edited
And my written dispatch from Sundance, for @screenslate.bsky.social:
www.screenslate.com/articles/sun...
www.screenslate.com/articles/sun...
Sundance Film Festival 2025
“The New York City guys go blasting through traffic,” a young controller on Park Avenue quipped to his fellow beanied co-worker. Not that Park Avenue, where seeing piles of pedestrians muck through sn...
www.screenslate.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
And my written dispatch from Sundance, for @screenslate.bsky.social:
www.screenslate.com/articles/sun...
www.screenslate.com/articles/sun...
Last week, I podcasted from Sundance Film Festival with @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy. We discussed some good, really good, and bad movies!
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Sundance 2025 #3, with Lovia Gyarkye, Alana Pockros, and Lisa Wong Macabasco
The Film Comment Podcast · Episode
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February 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Last week, I podcasted from Sundance Film Festival with @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy. We discussed some good, really good, and bad movies!
open.spotify.com/episode/29jS...
open.spotify.com/episode/29jS...
I wrote something about how the fires and the internet are making me feel, and also Mike Davis:
substack.com/@pockmark/no...
substack.com/@pockmark/no...
Reflections on burning
A warm (too warm) welcome to 2025.
substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I wrote something about how the fires and the internet are making me feel, and also Mike Davis:
substack.com/@pockmark/no...
substack.com/@pockmark/no...
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Kennedy’s rise is one symptom of a cultural realignment that has merged hippie-coded New Age wellness fads with right-wing conspiracy thinking.
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RFK Jr. Is Scary. His Online Fans Might Be Scarier.
To understand RFK Jr.'s rightward shift, we need to examine the Internet culture that fostered his growth—and which the Harris campaign ignored.
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December 2, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Kennedy’s rise is one symptom of a cultural realignment that has merged hippie-coded New Age wellness fads with right-wing conspiracy thinking.
bit.ly/4fUOSiF
bit.ly/4fUOSiF
For our April issue, I too wrote about Lauren Oyler’s NO JUDGMENT: a sort of underwhelming book, but one where Oyler’s attempt to be cynical actually reveals something fortuitous about her technique.
Lauren Oyler and the Critic in the Internet Age
In No Judgment, the novelist and critic explores the perilous activity of literary criticism in the era of social media.
www.thenation.com
April 10, 2024 at 4:14 PM
For our April issue, I too wrote about Lauren Oyler’s NO JUDGMENT: a sort of underwhelming book, but one where Oyler’s attempt to be cynical actually reveals something fortuitous about her technique.
Reposted by Alana Pockros
VOL. 01 IS HERE. Order on our website or request from your favorite independent purveyor of books and magazines.
clereviewofbooks.com/store/p/volume-01
clereviewofbooks.com/store/p/volume-01
December 12, 2023 at 5:15 PM
VOL. 01 IS HERE. Order on our website or request from your favorite independent purveyor of books and magazines.
clereviewofbooks.com/store/p/volume-01
clereviewofbooks.com/store/p/volume-01
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Vol. 01 launch parties have been scheduled for 12/2 in Cleveland and 12/7 in NYC. Details soon. Pencil us in. Use a pen even.
November 10, 2023 at 6:56 PM
Vol. 01 launch parties have been scheduled for 12/2 in Cleveland and 12/7 in NYC. Details soon. Pencil us in. Use a pen even.
Reposted by Alana Pockros
A really great essay which taught me many things but left me wondering: does Jordan Peterson have scurvy?
September 21, 2023 at 12:01 AM
A really great essay which taught me many things but left me wondering: does Jordan Peterson have scurvy?
Something I wrote! In case people are getting back on this platform and fleeing the other:
Family Punditry | Alana Pockros
On social media, the children of far-right pundits and disgraced Republican candidates are achieving their own kind of fame.
thebaffler.com
September 19, 2023 at 8:18 PM
Something I wrote! In case people are getting back on this platform and fleeing the other:
We have a new coat of paint!
The Nation is out today with a redesign of TheNation.com. Our new look is as committed to a pleasurable reader experience as our journalism is to progress.
June 22, 2023 at 5:04 PM
We have a new coat of paint!
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Really happy to have this lovely look at some very cool queer teens who fought back against Republican ghouls in Kentucky up on @thenation.com! https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/queer-kentucky-youth-rally/
Republicans Attacked These Queer Students' Lives. So They Fought Back.
How three Kentucky high schoolers joined forces to stand up to a GOP assault on their rights—and brought hundreds of people along with them.
www.thenation.com
May 30, 2023 at 10:38 PM
Really happy to have this lovely look at some very cool queer teens who fought back against Republican ghouls in Kentucky up on @thenation.com! https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/queer-kentucky-youth-rally/
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the tectonic plates of the app just shifted bc @thenation.com’s very own @apockros.bsky.social has arrived!!
May 17, 2023 at 3:00 PM
the tectonic plates of the app just shifted bc @thenation.com’s very own @apockros.bsky.social has arrived!!