Episode 507: Rachel Aviv

Published: Oct. 12, 2022, 5:14 p.m.

b'Rachel Aviv is a staff writer for\\xa0The New Yorker. Her new book is\\xa0Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us.\\n\\u201cI used to feel that if I knew everything, that was a good sign. And I\'ve become more aware that if you know everything you want to argue, that\'s not such a good sign\\u2026. Do I have a genuine question? Is there something I\\u2019m trying to figure out? Then the story is worth telling. But if I don\\u2019t really have a question or if my question is already answered, then maybe that should give you pause.\\u201d\\n\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@rachelaviv\\n\\nAviv on Longform\\n\\nAviv on Longform Podcast\\n\\nAviv\'s\\xa0New Yorker\\xa0archive\\n\\n05:00\\xa0Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us\\xa0(Farrar, Straus and Giroux \\u2022 2022)\\n\\n03:00\\xa0"How An Ivy League School Turned Against A Student"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Mar 2022)\\n\\n11:00\\xa0"Anorexia, The Impossible Subject"\\xa0(Alice Gregory \\u2022 New Yorker \\u2022 Dec 2013)\\n\\n12:00\\xa0"The Trauma of Facing Deportation"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Mar 2017)\\n\\n28:00\\xa0The Warmth of Other Suns\\xa0(Isabel Wilkerson \\u2022 Vintage \\u2022 2011)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'