I did not know how difficult it is to write about a book that one likes too much, till I found myself reading Pico Iyer’s new book, Learning from Silence. I have carried it everywhere with me for two ...

(AP) — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family ... many who came to hear Iyer speak clutched his book with a fiery orange cover titled “Aflame: Learning from ...

Pico Iyer’s latest book, which includes reflections drawn from three decades of retreats at a Benedictine monastery in California, is a call to engage more deeply with the world ...

When the cacophony of the world grows too loud, author Pico Iyer knows just ... Ahead of an appearance at Book Passage in Corte Madera on Jan. 15, Iyer spoke with the Chronicle by Zoom from ...

Known as ‘the Mother’, Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa made India her home. Her biography, The Mother (HarperCollins), is ...

4. Aflame by Pico Iyer (Riverhead Books: $30) An exploration of the power of silence and what it can show us about life, love and death. 5. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne ...