A tiny new Iyer book—The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere– is coming out from TED Books/Simon & Schuster on November 4, 2014, in hardback, e-book and audio book form, the second in the TED Original series, accompanied by a 14-minute talk on ted.com., as well as other related new videos on ted.com and a segment on the TED Radio Hour later that week.
A few recent Iyer articles include:
“Love at First Step”—an essay adapted from the new collection, Deep Kyoto Walks, on the BBC Travel website, July 21, 2014.
“An Unknown America of the Mind”—a long essay on Richard Rodriguez’s book Darling, in The New York Review of Books, August 14, 2014.
“Juggling Worlds”–a review of “The Bone Clocks, the new novel by David Mitchell, in The New York Times Book Review, August 31, 2014.
“Immersed in the Surface”—an essay based around Haruki Murakami’s latest novel Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage, in Prospect magazine, September 2014.
“Talkin’ ‘Bout a Permament Revolution”–an essay on San Francisco in The Observer, September 14, 2014.
“Song of the Earth”—a brief essay on Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, in The American Scholar, Autumn 2014;
“The Things They Buried”–a review of Romesh Gunesekera’s book of stories, Noontide Toll—Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2014.
“Open Up”—a piece on finding space in an accelerating world–Mindful, October 2014
“Art of Darkness”–an essay on morality and literature, The New York Times Book Review, October 26, 2014.
An ode to Kashmir, in Conde Nast Traveller (India), October/November 2014.
“The Spell of the Foreign”—a long essay on the ambiguous nature of the “Foreign” in Lapham’s Quarterly, Winter 2014 issue.