Rachel Aviv

Rachel Aviv is an American writer and author. She is currently a staff writer with The New Yorker.

Aviv won a 2020 Whiting Award in creative non-fiction and a 2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She has investigated Teen Challenge, guardianship abuse, andfamily courts.

Aviv graduated from Brown University in 2004.

Her book Strangers to Ourselves was selected for The New York Times's "10 Best Books of 2022" list. The bookwas a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle award in criticism.

Books

• Aviv, Rachel (2022). Strangers to ourselves : unsettled minds and the stories that make us. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Essays and reporting

• Aviv, Rachel (July 25, 2016). "Captain of her soul : the philosopher Martha Nussbaum's emotions". Profiles. The New Yorker. 92 (22): 34–43.
• — (April 5, 2021). "Past imperfect : Elizabeth Loftus changed the meaning of memory.Now her work collides with our traumatized moment". Profiles. The New Yorker. 97 (7): 28–36, 39.
• — (September 12, 2022). "Impaired judgment : Arica Waters believed she had been taken advantage of sexually. Why was she on trial?". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 98 (28): 34–38, 40–43.

Critical studies and reviews of Aviv's work

Strangers to ourselves

• Anon. (June 15, 2022). "[Untitled review]". Kirkus Reviews.
• Szalai, Jennifer (2022-09-07). "In 'Strangers to Ourselves,' a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness". The New York Times.
• Anderson, Hephzibah (2022-10-11). "Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv review – rewriting the language of mental illness". The Guardian.

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