Alana Pockros

Author Archive

  • Nov 27, 2025
    It is axiomatic that the way a mother cares for her children has a lot to do with how they turn out. Take Tony Soprano. Or consider a meme: an image of a pregnant woman smoking and...
  • Aug 14, 2025
    The characters in Catherine Lacey’s fiction are always running away from themselves. In her first novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing, we meet a woman named Elyria as she’s...
  • Aug 11, 2025
    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 altitude and airplane air, and screened a final...
  • Mar 12, 2025
    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 you don’t have one, you will be...