These essays struck deep notes when I read them in the New Yorker; she is simply brilliant
Anne Enright, Guardian
Aviv is an instinctive storyteller
Observer
I admire her rigor and eloquence but also her restraint - she makes vivid experiences we can't explain
Ben Lerner
Janet Malcolm's successor at the New Yorker
Tablet
Being a mother doesn’t make you better or more sage… But in Aviv’s care, at least, it seems to have brought new depths to her already excellent journalism
The Times
About Rachel Aviv
RACHEL AVIV is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes about psychology, medical ethics and criminal justice, among other subjects. She is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and the winner of a George Polk Award and a National Magazine Award. Her 2022 book, Strangers to Ourselves, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
