All Episodes

Emmanuel Iduma: Letter To a Stranger- To The Follower of Chiekh Bamba Whom I Met In Dakar

Svetlana Kitto: Behind the Feature - The Most Sordid Russian Gay Bar in Riga

Jennifer Acker: Letter To A Stranger- To The Kenyan Doctor Who Saved Me From Meningitis

Anna Vodicka: To the Room Full of Travelers Watching American Reality TV

Jon Arlan: No Equivalent - Natsukashii

Olaya Barr: No Equivalent - Chuches

Kalen Goodluck: Behind the Feature - The Fog of Brigadoon

Chelsea Hodson: Letter to a Stranger - To a Duck in the Garden of Ninfa

Aaron Gordon: Behind the Feature - While the World was Watching Soccer

Sarah Goodyear: Under the Influence - The Wonder Valley Desert of Gram Parsons

Tammy Danan: Letter to a Stranger - To the Lumad Kid who Asked for a Peso

Rachel Veroff: Under the Influence - To Ask a Question of a Tombstone

Alexander Lumans: Letter to a Stranger - To My Arctic Vardøger

Chelsea Ennen: Under the Influence - The Brontë Sisters and the Lonely Moors of Haworth

Ayun Halliday: Letter to a Stranger - To Tommy, A Birthday Boy on the Outskirts of Pai

Benjamin Harnett: The Long Commute: From Ancient Scrolls to Modern Screens

Sophie Haigney: On Joan Didion, California Wildfires, Cryptohackers, and all that

Monet P. Thomas: Letter to a Stranger - To the Pharmacist on Futong West Street

Emily Cataneo: The Berliner Who Evaded Arrest

Roland Kelts: Hie in Ho Chi Minh

Jackson Barnett: Letter to a Stranger - To A Greedy Cannibal in Mcleodganj, India

Amber Meadow Adams: Pajogan

Lavinia Spalding: Letter to a Stranger - To The One Who Was Supposed to Get Away

Judy Bolton-Fasman: No Equivalent - Trastienda

Ying Reinhardt: Letter to a Stranger - To the Man Who Spoke With His Hands

Julia Cooke: What I Didn't Say - About Cuba

Rachel Pieh Jones: No Equivalent - Faq

Craig Mod: Letter to a Stranger - To Sandals Man

Helen Betya Rubinstein: Letter to a Stranger - To the Man in my Grandfather's Shirt

Letter From The Editors

Anna McDonald: Unpitchable - Murray Hill, NY

Meera Subramanian: Letter to a Stranger: To the Man Who Saw Cobras Dance

Melissa Febos: Letter To a Stranger - To That Baby in Vico

Leslie Jamison: Unpitchable - Seattle, Washington

Anjali Sachdeva: Letter to a Stranger - To The Father Paused Under the Tree

Alex Sheshunoff: A Supposedly Fun Thing - How to Discover Your Own Pacific Island

Richard Deming: No Equivalent - Katzensprünge

Sophie Haigney: No Equivalent - Fernweh

Sara Wheeler: What I Didn't Say - About Chile

Pico Iyer: Behind the Feature - Into the Grey

Marcia DeSanctis: What I Didn't Say - About Honfleur

Aviya Kushner: Letter to a Stranger - To the Woman on the Park Bench

Will Boast: Letter to a Stranger - To My Brother's Final Witness

Heather Wilson: Letter to a Stranger - To the Map Keeper

Caroline Lester: Letter to a Stranger - To the Whale Dreamer

Kiki Petrosino: Letter to a Stranger - To the Stranger in My Family

Bonus Snippet | Ted Conover on Guantánamo Cancer Allegations

Bonus Snippet | Ted Conover on Guantánamo's Female Guards

Ted Conover On "My Guantánamo, and Theirs"

Molly Long: Letter to a Stranger - To the Other Woman

Chris Leslie: Letter to a Stranger - To the Other Man

Amy Irvine: Letter to a Stranger - To the Perfect Hostess

Mary Margaret Alvarado: Letter to a Stranger - To the Boys Who Almost Carried Me Off

Lucas Mann: Letter to a Stranger - To the Deliveryman in Caracas

Sheba Karim: Letter to a Stranger - To the Servant Girl Who Shared My Toys

Amy Belk: Letter to a Stranger - To the Hands I Could Take Anywhere

Arielle Angel: Letter to a Stranger - To the Man Who Named My Age

Howard Axelrod: Letter to a Stranger - To the Girl at the Riverbend

Akemi Johnson: Letter to a Stranger - To the Poet Who Disappeared

Lauren Groff: Letter to a Stranger - To the Man I Believe Was Good

Matthew Olzmann: Letter to a Stranger - To the Driver I Followed

Carlynn Houghton: Letter to a Stranger - To the Protagonist of a Too Short Story

Ted Conover: Letter to a Stranger - To the Shaken Traveler

Erica Cavanagh: Letter to a Stranger - To the Inescapable Teacher

Leslie Jamison: Letter to a Stranger - To the Traveling Magician

Colleen Kinder: Letter to a Stranger - To the Stranger from the Silver Hour