A penchant for journeys and a fascination with strangers

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Off Assignment is a place for narrative writing about journeys—broadly defined.

Find our essays in book form in our anthology, Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us.

LETTER TO A STRANGER

Missives to unshakeable passersby

WHAT I DIDN’T SAY

The stories behind the stories

UNDER THE INFLUENCE

The interplay between art and place

NO EQUIVALENT

Musings on untranslatable words

WITCHING HOUR

Ambient portraits of places at specific times