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.

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Why Does Everyone Love Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
April 11, 2014 10:31 AM
Ice Dancing Is Not a Sport, But It Is Quite a Spectacle

Meghan O'Rourke

Feb 17, 2014 9:28 PM
Is The Group the Greatest Novel About Female Friendship?
Feb 06, 2014 7:37 PM
Are You Desperate for Someone to Talk About The Goldfinch With? We’ll Talk to You!
Dec 06, 2013 9:25 AM
It Wasn’t All Stagecraft. Jacqueline Kennedy Let America See the Bloody, Messy Reality of Death.

Meghan O'Rourke

Nov 21, 2013 11:28 PM
The Audio Book Club Plays Ender’s Game
Oct 11, 2013 11:35 AM
The Audio Book Club Goes Swann’s Way
May 03, 2013 9:00 AM
The Audio Book Club Is Going Clear
April 12, 2013 12:45 PM
The Audio Book Club Discusses David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
Nov 02, 2012 11:04 PM
Do Only Women Love How Should a Person Be? The Audio Book Club Debates.
Oct 04, 2012 11:04 PM
Gabby Douglas, Viktoria Komova, and the Allure and the Danger of Women’s Gymnastics

Meghan O'Rourke

Aug 03, 2012 10:39 AM
The Pure Joy of Watching America’s Greatest Women’s Gymnastics Team

Meghan O'Rourke

Aug 01, 2012 8:30 AM
The Audio Book Club Reads Fifty Shades of Grey

Meghan O'Rourke, Hanna Rosin, and Dan Kois

June 29, 2012 12:56 PM
Lena Dunham Talks About the Girls Finale

Meghan O'Rourke

June 17, 2012 11:03 PM
Girls Finale: What’s With All the Peeing? And Cake?

L.V. Anderson, Allison Benedikt, Meghan O'Rourke, Hanna Rosin, and Dana Stevens

June 17, 2012 11:00 PM
Lena Dunham and Meghan O’Rourke in Conversation

Meghan O'Rourke

June 15, 2012 7:59 PM
Girls on Girls: Do You Have to Hate Your Best Friend’s Nemesis?

L.V. Anderson, Allison Benedikt, Meghan O'Rourke, Hanna Rosin, and June Thomas

June 10, 2012 10:50 PM
The Audio Book Club Reads Are You My Mother?
June 01, 2012 11:32 PM
What Slate’s Ladies Thought of This Week’s Episode of Girls

L.V. Anderson, Hanna Rosin, Meghan O'Rourke, Dana Stevens, and June Thomas

May 20, 2012 10:49 PM
Alison Bechdel’s Follow-Up to Fun Home Is Cartoon Therapy

Meghan O'Rourke

May 05, 2012 12:30 AM