“Beneath Us, Beyond Us, Inside Us”—a long introductory essay to the book Masks, by National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier, October 2019
“The Shock of the Old”—an essay on the Naoshima project for the Benesse Art Site Naoshima newsletter, October 2019
“Relative Values”–an essay on Japan and its different relation to reality, for the Times Literary Supplement, November 22, 2019.
“The Newest New, The Oldest Old”—an essay on Koyasan and Koshien, Silver Kris, December 2019
“The Calm Before the Storm”—a letter from Hong Kong in Air Mail, December 7, 2019
“It’s Almost 2020. Have We Really Gotten Wiser?”—an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times, December 23, 2019
“The Dead Prime Ministers’ Society”—an essay on Eton in Air Mail, January 4, 2020
“How to be Cool and Warm At Once”—a tribute to the late Sonny Mehta, for Air Mail January 11, 2020
“The Light All Around Us”–a short essay on the photographic work of Robert Adams—Aperture, February 2020
An interview on the Virus moment for the Sunday Times of India, April 5, 2020– Read here
An interview with Mint, April 15, 2020– Read here
“Joyful participation in a world of sorrow”–A conversation with Cheryl Strayed for the Sugar Calling podcast hosted by The New York Times, April 15, 2020
“Contemplation in isolation”—A conversation with Jonathan Bastian on the pilot episode of “Foxhole” on KCRW radio station, April 25, 2020
“On Returning”–An essay on how and why travel is more important than ever, in Conde Nast Traveler, May/June 2020
“How a stopover at Tokyo Airport changed my life:”—an essay for The Guardian, May 16, 2020
“We cannot function without travel—an Op-Ed for the Globe & Mail, May 30, 2020
“Pico Iyer on the secret of immersive travel”—an essay for BBC.com, June 12, 2020
“The Origin of Paradise”—an essay on Iran for Bloomberg Business Week, June 29, 2020
For an unusually rich, searching and fresh interview, please read “A Friend Afar,” by the exceptional Austrian writer and journalist, Simon Schreyer: – Read here