Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere I am looking with sweet regard at this photo taken at the apex of summer on the pond where I live. It is a hazy, sunny day, but dead ...

I did not know how difficult it is to write about a book that one likes too much, till I found myself reading Pico ... Stillness that sings. This book begins with literal homelessness. Iyer ...

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 ...

Pico Iyer is best known for his travel writing ... almost palpable – a “stillness that sings”. The book begins with literal homelessness, with Iyer going back to the time in his early ...

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.

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 ...