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Pico Iyer on What We Can Learn From the Monastic Life

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

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

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

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 <br>Silences of Japan

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

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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