I did not know how difficult it is to write about a book that one likes too much, till I found myself reading Pico Iyer’s new book, Learning from Silence. I have carried it everywhere with me for two ...

Known as ‘the Mother’, Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa made India her home. Her biography, The Mother (HarperCollins), is written by a scholar, Peter Heehs, who is an authority on the life and works of ...

Learning From Silence' recounts his refuge in a Benedictine monastery after losing everything in a wildfire. Describing th ...

Such ideas may well have resonated with Pico Iyer during and after a devastating ... such as The Art of Stillness. The ...

Having lived in Japan for decades, the widely traveled and erudite, Oxford-born Iyer (The Art of Stillness) presents this lovely pocket compendium of oddities and insights of Japanese life.

When the cacophony of the world grows too loud, author Pico Iyer knows just where to go ... small and life-changing — all conceived in stillness from a small, modest cell overlooking the ...

It’s an unusual thing to hear from a prolific writer, but Pico Iyer, 68, says he measures joy ... wrote The Art of Stillness (2014) and The Half Known Life (2023). His new book, Learning from ...

Pico Iyer, the bestselling author of "The Art of Stillness," presents his new book "Aflame: Learning from Silence" at Vroman's bookstore in Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in the wake ...