Pico Iyer on What We Can Learn From the Monastic Life
In Praise of Solitude, Contemplation and Connection
January 21, 2025
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Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer is the author of fifteen books, translated into twenty-three languages, and has been a constant contributor for more than thirty years to Time, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and more than 250 other periodicals worldwide. His four recent talks for TED have received more than eleven million views. His new book The Half Known Life is available now from Riverhead.
Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir
"Kashmir became a shorthand for the contention that festers between neighbors whom Empire has cynically divided."
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.”
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.”
Pico Iyer on the Infinite
Silences of Japan
Kawabata: “No word can say as much as silence.”
Autumn in Japan and the Ways We Cling to Dying Things
Pico Iyer on the Beauty of Impermanence
