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1 month ago | 
nybooks.com | Merve Emre |Meghan O’Rourke
Meghan O’Rourke is a best-selling, award-winning poet, memoirist, and critic who also happens to be my neighbor. She is the person whose door I knock on when I want to discuss an idea for a book or rehearse the argument of an essay, or to gossip, or to propose a crazy, impractical scheme like opening an independent bookstore in our college town.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
internazionale.it | Meghan O’Rourke
Questo articolo è stato pubblicato il 14 novembre 2014 nel numero 1077 di Internazionale.
Elena Ferrante è una scrittrice italiana nata a Napoli o nei dintorni. Sembra che sia stata sposata, potrebbe aver vissuto in Grecia e, a quanto pare, è una madre. O almeno così pensiamo. In un’era di autopromozione satura di Twitter, Ferrante è una sconosciuta che vuole rimanere tale.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
yalereview.org | Meghan O’Rourke
Meghan O’Rourke A risk of all writing about embodiment is that the writer’s thinking overtakes the messy material itself, leading to banality or sentimentality or false tidiness. Everyone knows that writing about sex is hard; what fewer people are aware of is that it is just as hard, or even harder, to write about illness. (Working on my last book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, I found myself lamenting the fact that literature has so little to say about illness.
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May 13, 2024 | 
yalereview.org | Meghan O’Rourke
Meghan O’Rourke Miranda July, the writer, filmmaker, and artist, has written “the First Great Perimenopause Novel,” as The New York Times Magazine proclaimed last week. I came to a similar conclusion while reading the novel in question, All Fours, which chronicles one woman’s journey into menopause and out of a marriage. The unnamed protagonist is forty-five years old and, like July, is a semi-famous artist who lives in Los Angeles with a husband and one young child.
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May 6, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Meghan O’Rourke
At breakfast the other week, I noticed a bulging lump on my son’s neck. Within minutes of anxious Googling, I’d convinced myself that he had a serious undiagnosed medical condition—and the more I looked, the more apprehensive I got. Was it internal jugular phlebectasia, which might require surgery? Or a sign of lymphoma, which my father had been diagnosed with before he died?
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
yalereview.org | Meghan O’Rourke
This month The Yale Review is celebrating the launch of a new weekly feature, in which we bring you gems and other pieces of note from the magazine’s archive. The Yale Review has a long and winding history, as my predecessor, the poet and author J. D. McClatchy, once emphasized. The journal dates its origins to 1819, when a handful of Yale faculty members launched The Christian Spectator, a quarterly journal devoted to covering matters of theology.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Meghan O’Rourke |James Nestor |Roberto Bolaño
The right book read at the right time can alter not just what you think, but how. The effect can feel like putting on a new set of glasses: Everything remains the same, but you view reality with sudden clarity. It can also be more unsettling—great writing may make the ordinary utterly unfamiliar, so that the reader experiences it unmoored from prior assumptions. Many books can pull off this life-altering trick, depending on how we encounter them; the timing is as important as the subject.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
yalereview.org | Meghan O’Rourke
Tribute Meghan O’Rourke The first book of poetry I ever read was Ararat (1990), by Louise Glück. I had read many poems in classes, from anthologies, but had never actually read a collection of poems front to back, or even thought about a collection as a meaningful record of a poet’s creative output at a given time. At the time—this was 1994—I was an eighteen-year-old sophomore at Yale, enrolled in my first poetry workshop.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
theatlantic.com | Meghan O’Rourke
Elite women’s gymnastics has long been criticized for the way it treats its athletes, who, in recent decades, have typically been young girls and adolescents. In 2017, USA Gymnastics’ official team doctor, Larry Nassar, was convicted of molesting athletes while ostensibly treating them for injuries. In 2020, the Netflix documentary Athlete A accused USA Gymnastics of complicity in a culture of abuse and psychological intimidation.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
msn.com | Meghan O’Rourke
In the 2000s, male artists routinely excavated the popular culture of their boyhood for imaginative repurposing in their art. Michael Chabon’s novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay traces the lives of two men who become comic-book creators. In Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, two boys find a magic ring they use to take on superpowers; the title itself evokes the fictional fortress of Superman.
