Through retreats at the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, Pico Iyer explores the tension between inner peace and worldly ...

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 ...

Aflame, Learning From Silence, the newest book by Pico Iyer, the bestselling author of more than a dozen books translated in more than 20 languages, is a powerful recital of Iyer’s experiences ...

10. 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.

Learning From Silence' recounts his refuge in a Benedictine monastery after losing everything in a wildfire. Describing th ...

Two men in white robes stand at the end of the road, high above the empty highway. “That fire last October,” says one, young and slim, his eyes burning under his shaven head, “it came within ...

When I hear the rap on the pillar at the edge of my deck, I know it’s the warm monk to whom I’ve grown so close. In his hand is his mug, two tea bags and a box of Walkers shortbread. We sit in ...

Such ideas may well have resonated with Pico Iyer during and after a devastating ... of resilience and embracing impermanence ...

It’s an unusual thing to hear from a prolific writer, but Pico Iyer ... was a pulsating silence. The books that followed were of a different kind. Iyer, author of the bestselling Falling ...

“Coming to Santa Barbara from the Smokies is like coming to another planet,” mused Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental novelist Richard Powers in conversation with essayist and novelist Pico Iyer ...

10. 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.