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Pico Iyer on What We Can Learn From the Monastic Life
In Praise of Solitude, Contemplation and Connection
By
Pico Iyer
| January 21, 2025
Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir
"Kashmir became a shorthand for the contention that festers between neighbors whom Empire has cynically divided."
By
Pico Iyer
| January 11, 2023
Pico Iyer on the Timelessly Intimate Images of Norwegian Photographer Tom Sandberg
“Objects have lives, and the divisions we draw between animate and inanimate are a human-made creation.”
By
Pico Iyer
| November 30, 2022
A World Outside Time: Pico Iyer on the Deep Pleasure of Handel’s Chorale Music
“What so moves me—literally transports me—is the way he blends ceremony with emotion.”
By
Pico Iyer
| September 29, 2021
Pico Iyer on the Infinite
Silences of Japan
Kawabata: “No word can say as much as silence.”
By
Pico Iyer
| September 18, 2019
Autumn in Japan and the Ways We Cling to Dying Things
Pico Iyer on the Beauty of Impermanence
By
Pico Iyer
| April 17, 2019
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