Rachel Corbett

Rachel Corbett is an American author and journalist. She is the author of the books You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin, published by W.W. Norton in 2016 and The Monsters We Make, published by W.W. Norton in 2025 . She has been a features writer at New York magazine since 2025 . She was the executive editor of Modern Painters from 2016-2017. Prior to that she worked as a correspondent for The Art Newspaper.

Life Corbett grew up in Iowa and studied at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Iowa. Her 2016 book, You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin, won the Marfield Prize.

Selected works Books

Corbett, Rachel (2025). The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling. New York: W. W. Norton.

Essays and reporting

Corbett, Rachel (October 18, 2018). "The Culture Wars of Car Racing." The New York Times Magazine. Corbett, Rachel (October, 2019). "Medicaid's Dark Secret:" For many participants, the program that provides health care to millions of low-income Americans isn’t free. It’s a loan. And the government expects to be repaid. The Atlantic. Corbett, Rachel (August 23, 2023). "The Inheritance Case That Could Unravel an Art Dynasty: " How a widow’s legal fight against the Wildenstein family of France has threatened their storied collection — and revealed the underbelly of the global art market. The New York Times Magazine.