ESSAYS & Poems
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ESSAYS & POEMS
- "Sectioned," The New Yorker, June 15, 2026
- "Changing Table," The New Yorker, January 12, 2026
- "Hypochondria Never Dies," The Atlantic, May, 2024
- "Erasers," Poem-a-Day, Academy of American Poets, August 3, 2026
- "The Lonely Odyssey of Chronic Illness," Wall Street Journal, February 25, 2022
- "The Plight of the Invisibly Ill," Elle Magazine, March 2022
- "COVID Long Haulers Are Calling Attention to Chronic Illnesses," Scientific American, March 2022
- "Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID," The Atlantic, April 2021
- "Grappling with a Terrible Milestone: One Hundred Thousand Dead," The Atlantic, May 23, 2020
- "Americans Have to Accept Uncertainty," The Atlantic, May 6, 2020.
- "We're Used to Grieving Together. What Happens When We Can't?" The Washington Post, March 20, 2020
- "The Shift Americans Must Make to Fight the Coronavirus," The Atlantic, March 12, 2020
- "Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts," The Atlantic, September 2019
- "What's Wrong With Me?" The New Yorker, August 26, 2013
- "A New Name, and Wider Recognition, for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," The New Yorker, February 27, 2015
- "Doctors Tell All—and It's Bad," The Atlantic, November 2014
- "Deadlines," New York Times Book Review, July 3, 2013
- “Story’s End,” The New Yorker, February 7, 2011.
- "The Unfolding", The New Yorker, July 5, 2010.
- "Good Grief: Is There a Better Way to Grieve?" The New Yorker, February 1, 2010
- "Nancy Drew's Father," The New Yorker, November 8, 2004
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Meghan O'Rourke is a poet and essayist, and the executive editor of The Yale Review. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom — a finalist for the National Book Award — the memoir The Long Goodbye, and the poetry collections Sun in Days, Once, and Halflife. Her new anthology, The Story of the Body: Poems of Illness & Recovery, is out this October from W. W. Norton.
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