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Commentary.Feb 19, 2014

Letters to Strangers: Verbage

In which the author contemplates the fragility of writing…

By TMS Staff
Commentary.Nov 11, 2013

Letters to Strangers: Così Fan Tutte

In this week’s edition of Letters to Strangers, Maria Amir muses about the prisons we build for ourselves, listening to opera, and learning to befriend other women.

By Mahnoor Yawar
Commentary.Oct 7, 2013

Letters to Strangers: Sacred Spaces

In this month’s column, The Missing Slate’s Maria Amir writes of sacred spaces – the car, a new role, and the awakening that they perpetuate.

By TMS Staff
Commentary.Aug 26, 2013

Letters to Strangers: Shifting Allegiances

Letters to Strangers is a series where Features Editor Maria Amir writes to a faceless stranger of the very intimate and the very public…

By Mahnoor Yawar
Commentary.Jul 8, 2013

Letters to Strangers: Betweens

In this week’s column, Maria Amir contemplates the surprising freedom in being a divorcee in Pakistan…

By TMS Staff
Commentary.Jun 24, 2013

Letters to Strangers

Features Editor Maria Amir writes to a stranger because sometimes, unloading to a stranger is all that’s needed.

By TMS Staff