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Associate Editor @thenation. Critic here and there.

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How Motherhood Changed Rachel Aviv’s Writing Original

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By Alana Pockros Verified
| The New Republic Verified
One summer, Rachel Aviv went away to sleepaway camp in Maine while her mother rented a house some hours away for a self-imposed writing retreat. In a scene that could be a playbook for Annie Baker’s film Janet Planet, the writer recounts calling her mother a few days into her time at camp to say she “was considering jumping into the lake and drowning.” Her mother picks her up, and the two spend the summer together, doing some writing, and some not writing.
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Two’s a Crowd: The Invite

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By Alana Pockros Verified
| Film Comment Magazine Verified
Film Review Olivia Wilde’s latest explores the perils of heterosexual coupling with wit and sincerity The Invite (Olivia Wilde, 2026). Courtesy of A24. Picture this: it’s a beautiful day in San Francisco. Your palatial apartment, which you own despite being a millennial “artist,” is newly renovated. Your kid is away at a sleepover. Your back hurts, but everything is going OK—until you walk in the door, and the untended resentment bubbling below the surface of your marriage threatens to boil over.
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The United States’ Long War Against Iran

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By Alana Pockros Verified
| The Nation Verified
Our Back Pages / May 12, 2026 The United States’ Long War Against Iran The Nation was among the first publications to report the CIA’s role in the 1953 overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.
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