Meghan O'Rourke

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.