Pico Iyer, essayist and author of The Half Known Life:In Search of Paradise and more recently Aflame: Learning from Silence, reflects on the passing of Pope Francis and the profound influence the ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents pioneering performance artist Marina Abramović in Conversation with Pico Iyer, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 6 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara. “Renowned ...

Pico Iyer is the author of 17 books, including the bestsellers The Open Road, The Art of Stillness, and The Half Known Life.

Winners were announced in 13 categories for works published last year. Additionally, award-winning author Pico Iyer was honored with the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, and Amanda ...

Aflame, Learning From Silence, the newest book by Pico Iyer, the bestselling author of more than a dozen books translated in more than 20 languages, is a powerful recital of Iyer’s experiences ...

For the record: 11:34 a.m. April 26, 2025An earlier version of this article misidentified the location of Pico Iyer’s house that burned down. It was in Santa Barbara. Writers also addressed the ...

By Pico Iyer Japan’s most celebrated poet, writing in the 17th century under the name of Matsuo Basho, found his truest home on the road. Sleeping on a grass pillow, seeking out auspicious ...

By Pico Iyer Illustrations by Ilya Milstein A Japanese sentence is often as mongrel as a Japanese street. While walking through a shopping arcade in Osaka — here a tatami tearoom, there a French ...

(RNS) — Pico Iyer is no stranger to the disaster now visiting ... In his latest book, “Aflame: Learning From Silence,” the prolific novelist, travel writer and essayist tells how he found ...

Travel insurance provider Faye has made it easier for travel advisors to quote prices for groups. The insurer has updated its travel advisor portal with a new roster quoting feature. According to ...

Pico Iyer, a decades-long resident of Japan, is also of Indian descent — and it was fascinating to see in their pieces a complicated ambivalence toward a nation that, for better and worse ...

“I knew we had to somehow get him into space.” DAWN NADEAU, the president of the board for the New York co-op where the ashes of Willy Ley, known as the prophet of the space age, were ...