Rachel Aviv
Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of “ Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us ,” a finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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a reporter at large ·
Gerald (Gerry) Fremlin, the partner of the Nobel Prize-winning author, sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s books and short stories. Rachel Aviv speaks to Munro’s children, Andrea, Sheila, and Jenny.
profiles ·
Anthony Broadwater spent sixteen years in prison and twenty-two more as a registered sex offender, Rachel Aviv writes. For him and for the author of “The Lovely Bones,” justice is a difficult dream.
a reporter at large ·
At a dangerous moment in Iran, the filmmaker stands accused by one of his former students, Rachel Aviv writes.
a reporter at large ·
Rachel Aviv on a penitentiary with one of the U.S.’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, where prison terms become death sentences.
a reporter at large ·
Rachel Aviv on Sharon Stern, who devoted herself to Butoh and whose mentor may have led her down a dangerous path.
a reporter at large ·
Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home, Rachel Aviv writes.
letter from st. thomas ·
Rachel Aviv reports on the disappearances of Hannah Upp.
a reporter at large ·
Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.
a reporter at large ·
Bobby Hadid joined the N.Y.P.D. after 9/11, to protect his new country. But when he questioned the force’s tactics, his life began to erode.
a reporter at large ·
Rachel Aviv writes about convicted murderers who have been exonerated by DNA evidence but still remember crimes they didn’t commit.
letter from sweden ·
Rachel Aviv on the hundreds of refugee children in Sweden who have fallen unconscious after learning that their families will be expelled from the country.
profiles ·
Rachel Aviv on the story of Albert Woodfox, who, as one of the Angola 3, was in solitary confinement longer than any other American.
letter from albuquerque ·
The city has one of the highest rates of fatal shootings by cops, but no officer has been indicted. Rachel Aviv reports on a crisis in New Mexico.
a reporter at large ·
Rachel Aviv on a Hasidic sex-abuse scandal. After a child-molestation case, leaders of the community turned against the whistleblower, Sam Kellner.
annals of science ·
After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him.
annals of mental health ·
Rachel Aviv writes about the problem of patients diagnosed with a psychotic illness who insist that they are not mentally ill.