Meghan O’Rourke is Slate’s culture critic and an advisory editor. She was previously an editor at the New Yorker. The Long Goodbye, a memoir about her mother’s death, is now out in paperback.

Recently by Meghan O'Rourke

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The Odyssey’s First Female Translator Draws Out the Poem’s Strangeness and Ambiguity
Meghan O'Rourke, Parul Sehgal, and Katy Waldman
Dec 19, 2017 9:25 AM
Somehow, Jennifer Egan’s Beautiful and Satisfying Manhattan Beach Doesn’t Founder on Clichés
Laura Miller, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman
Nov 29, 2017 7:17 AM
Hillary Clinton’s Gutting Campaign Memoir Sure Feels Relevant This Week
Emily Bazelon, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman
Oct 31, 2017 12:24 PM
What Conversations With Friends Nails About Being a Young Person In a Certain Urban Hipster Milieu
Laura Bennett, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman
Sept 26, 2017 2:00 PM
What Is an Essay For?
Jacob Brogan, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman
June 30, 2017 10:49 AM
The Audio Book Club Unboxes The Handmaid’s Tale on Page and Screen
Emily Bazelon, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman
May 22, 2017 11:36 AM
The Pain of Being Alive and Being Dead in George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo
Nora Caplan-Bricker, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman
May 01, 2017 11:28 AM
Is a Bob Dylan Song a Poem Too? What About a Good Poem?
John Dickerson, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman
Feb 17, 2017 1:12 PM
Finally, a Book on Single Ladies Acknowledges How Diverse Women Are
Meghan O'Rourke, Parul Sehgal, and Katy Waldman
July 18, 2016 12:04 PM
Finally, a Book on Single Ladies Acknowledges How Diverse Women Are
Katy Waldman, Meghan O'Rourke, and Parul Sehgal
July 18, 2016 12:04 PM
What a Dying Neurosurgeon Can Teach Us About How to Live
Meghan O'Rourke, Parul Sehgal, and Katy Waldman
April 11, 2016 9:51 AM
Has Anyone Noticed That Jonathan Franzen’s New Book Is All About Incest?
Meghan O'Rourke, Parul Sehgal, and Katy Waldman
Jan 14, 2016 8:07 AM
Is Ta-Nehisi Coates Too Fatalistic About the Arc of History?
Jamelle Bouie, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman
Sept 18, 2015 12:15 PM
Should Harper Lee Have Published Go Set a Watchman? Should I Have Read It?
Katy Waldman, Meghan O'Rourke, and Dan Kois
Aug 07, 2015 10:23 AM
Is H Is for Hawk a Memoir, a Ghost Story, a Nature Book, or Something Else Entirely? 
Julia Turner, Katy Waldman, and Meghan O'Rourke
May 08, 2015 10:58 AM
The Slate Audio Book Club on David Carr’s Best-Selling 2008 Memoir
Troy Patterson, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe
Feb 13, 2015 5:21 PM
Listen to Slate’s Audio Book Club Discuss Fifty Shades of Grey
Meghan O'Rourke, Hanna Rosin, and Dan Kois
Feb 13, 2015 8:02 AM
What Can Phil Klay’s Stories Tell Us About the Modern Professional Army?
Meghan O'Rourke, Hanna Rosin, and Dan Kois
Feb 06, 2015 9:46 AM
What’s Left When a Narrator “on Whom Nothing Is Lost” Loses Everything?
Meghan O'Rourke
Feb 02, 2015 9:58 AM
Have You Been Dying to Talk to Someone About Dept. of Speculation? We’ll Talk to You!
Meghan O'Rourke, Jessica Winter, and Dan Kois
May 09, 2014 11:48 AM