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

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 ...

(The fact that you can now get matcha — over ice, with milk — in almost any medium-size city in the West is akin ... respectively; Pico Iyer, a decades-long resident of Japan, is also of ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Our 'Evening at the Emerald City' prom was all about bringing smiles, laughter, and a sense of fun to our incredible kids and their families. It was a chance to forget about their worries for a ...

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City Pop-up Bar in Chicago China shuts down trade with US in riposte to Trump At the site of the dinosaur-killing crater, scientists find a surprise ...

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 ...