Archive - Strangers No More

When ICE agents are waiting outside

At immigration court in Manhattan, for The New Yorker

Jul 27 •

May 2025

An apartment for twelve

My latest story for The New Yorker

May 7 •

February 2025

Saving the sound of the tango

Tuning bandoneons in Buenos Aires

Feb 21 •

January 2025

The TikTok Trail

On the TikTok trail from the Andes to New York City

Jan 6 •

November 2024

The questions we don't ask in time

In this month's National Geographic, an ode to family storytelling

Nov 27, 2024 •

August 2024

Why I listen to the traffic report

Notes on home and local radio

Aug 18, 2024 •

July 2024

The man who bought a lighthouse

30 miles out to sea

Jul 20, 2024 •

Why the best stories are told aloud

Plus: audiobook out today, narrated by me!

Jul 17, 2024 •

4:35

Life in translation

Do you have a different "personality" in each language that you speak?

Jul 7, 2024 •

May 2024

Live at Bibliotheque (audio)

Listen to a conversation with my first editor, the novelist Megha Majumdar

May 4, 2024 •

23:20

April 2024

The joy of handwritten letters

And other reflections on slowing down

Apr 28, 2024 •

March 2024

A postcard from Patagonia

Plus: in-person events this week in Miami, Washington DC, and New York City.

Mar 23, 2024 •

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