Alana Pockros
@APockros
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associate editor @thenation + contributing editor @clereviewbooks
Joined December 2012
BIG NEWS! I’m launching a new weekend essay series @thenation. The Weekend Read will take the form of memoir, first-person narratives, and dispatches with a political through line. These pieces will come out every Saturday on our website and on The Nation’s Substack.
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Everyone is always so surprised by everything…Mark Grief said it more clearly than I could here but our society basically glorifies women who look like children
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thanks to @thenation for publishing this excerpt of my book; grateful to be edited by the wonderful @APockros
https://t.co/ZdFqZEVy98
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as a media worker, its important to have friends who are lawyers...to buy subscriptions to magazines and then give you the logins bc you cannot pay for them yourself
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loved reading & writing about Cora Lewis’s Information Age from @JoylandPub — ty CRB!
"In its meditation on daily life in the middle of the last decade, Information Age delineates the qualities and quirks of this time period, and reflects their shifts." Rachel Stone on Cora Lewis's "Information Age" @JoylandPub
https://t.co/Mm9DDiGydt
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I will stop everything I’m doing and read one thousand articles like this. Shoot it into my veins.
After the New York City mayoral race was called for Zohran Mamdani, the Mothers of the Upper East Side Facebook group devolved into panic and infighting.
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Just did the Frances Ha thing where I took off my clothes to put them directly into the washing machine
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An incredible entry to the Weekend Read canon!!
I was one of the senator’s most dedicated campaign staff—until I saw a side of him that made me sick. https://t.co/lZgWmKFTIm
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"Sentimental Value" is a kind of film we don’t see so often nowadays—honest art about adults and their feelings. https://t.co/skRVnqcSQy
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In Sentimental Value, the Norwegian filmmaker’s most ambitious work yet, he examines the porous boundary between art and life.
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thank you my brilliant coworker/editor/thinking partner @krevinlorenzo
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Joachim Trier FALL! (wrote about his new movie) https://t.co/vLEdFaVZ4j
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In Sentimental Value, the Norwegian filmmaker’s most ambitious work yet, he examines the porous boundary between art and life.
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!!! A civil rights icon?? For engaging in civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance in response to a moral crime and then being persecuted for it by the state??!! Are you kidding me?????
I went to Mahmoud Khalil’s “welcome home” celebration near Columbia. The important thing to note is that among leftists, he is not just revered: He is considered a civil rights icon.
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Essay forthcoming on this…
You can decline to have your face scanned by TSA and you should imo
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The Nation started a weekend essay series, and this one about New York City—through the eyes Wood Allen, Andrew Cuomo, and the piece's author, the great novelist Stephanie Wambugu—is superb.
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The director’s vision of New York City once seemed aspirational, but his endorsement of Andrew Cuomo suggests he may not understand the city beyond its fiction.
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The IDF trains with the NYPD. There's no reason for that connection to exist, but since it does exist, pointing it out isn't antisemitic!
I like zohran but this is actually bad and anti-Semitic.
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This piece is nearly a complete remake of @Jess_McAllen’s in @thenation we worked on months ago. Read her feature here:
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Internal Family Systems has been wholeheartedly embraced by celebrities and desperate patients alike. But is it a science—or a scam?
Internal Family Systems is a treatment offered by tens of thousands of therapists, endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Elizabeth Gilbert, and widely embraced on social media. Some patients say it’s destroyed their lives.
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