Peace Corps

Over the last 50 years, the writer Paul Theroux has visited most of the countries on Earth, And his novels are often about people more or less like him: people who go somewhere alien, and maybe find out who they are.

With the Peace Corps turning 50 this year, reporter Megan Verlee found it’s trying to woo more volunteers its own age.

What happens when Peace Corps volunteers fall in love, either with each other or with citizens of the country hosting them? Nina Porzucki, a Peace Corps alum, reports from the frontlines of love in the developing world.

Leslie Noyes Moss thought her 1960s Peace Corps experience in a small Pakistan village was largely a failure. But when she returned 50 years later, she found she’d made more of an impact than she’d realized.