This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Barnswallow Books will have copies of Aviv’s work for sale. A Q+A and book signing will follow the conversation. Refreshments and light bites provided.

RACHEL AVIV joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2013. Her subjects have included the writer Alice Munro and her daughter’s experience trying to break the silence surrounding her sexual abuse, in a report that received a 2024 George Polk Award; Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse who may have been wrongfully convicted of murder, in a piece that helped spark an international movement for justice; a German experiment that placed foster children with pedophiles; and the psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, in a Profile that received a National Magazine Award in 2022.

Aviv often writes about psychology, medical ethics, mental illness, criminal justice, and education. She received the 2015 Scripps Howard Award for her investigation of police shootings in Albuquerque, and her writing on mental health has been honored with the American Psychoanalytic Association Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has twice been a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Public Interest, as well as the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and she was a 2019 national fellow at New America. Aviv’s 2022 book, “Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us” was a Times best-seller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Brooklyn.

Aviv’s second book You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters is set to be released in July of this year.

Rachel Aviv will be interviewed by Jessica Goldstein. Goldstein is an award-winning journalist who traveled the world covering stories for NPR, then went on to build the network's live events platform. She currently runs Flying Mountain Productions, a consultancy focused on bringing together leaders and thinkers to explore the ideas shaping our world.