You Won’t Get Free of It

Aviv is an instinctive storyteller

Aviv is an instinctive storyteller

I admire her rigor and eloquence but also her restraint - she makes vivid experiences we can't explain

Janet Malcolm's successor at the New Yorker

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.