Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (June 2025)
A long chat with the brilliant Christopher Lydon on Radio Open Source—January 23, 2025. A long talk with Jonathan Bastian on KCRW’s “Life Examined” radio show—January 26, 2025 “To Big Sur, with Love”—an essay on the enchanted coastline for The Guardian, February 1, 2025. Numerous podcasts with Jonathan Fields, Elise Loehnen, Mitch Joel, James Shaheen, […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (January 2025)
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Son”—a review of Nick Harkaway’s novel Karla’s Choice, published in Air Mail, October 21, 2024 “The Moving River”—a short essay on my 37 years in Japan to go with Magdalena Sole’s series of seven artist’s books chronicling her 33 years of visits to the country—October 2024. “The Zendo called the World”—an essay […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (September 2024)
“Leave Your Ideas—and Ideologies—Behind”–an essay on how travel can help us overcome our prejudices, for the new magazine in India, The Nod, May 2024 “Calm Behind the Clamour”–an essay on the new Six Senses, Kyoto and the city around it—Conde Nast Traveller (U.K.), July/August 2024 “Prague’s Second Act”–a longish account of the capital of the […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (April 2024)
“How Far Would you Travel for Happiness?”–A rich conversation with Marianna Pogosyan for her Psychology Today blog, posted November 8, 2023. “Our constant search for Paradise”—a long interview with the TED Radio Hour, broadcast on November 10, 2023 A long and rich e-mail conversation with Caryl Phillips, on migration and exile, in The Palgrave Handbook […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (October 2023)
An hour-long interview with Doug Fabrizio for Radio West on KUER, April 6, 2023. A long talk with the wonderful editor Melvin McLeod for the Lion’s Roar podcast, April 17, 2023, excerpted in the July/August edition of Lion’s Roar. “The Man from Everywhere”—a short essay to introduce the latest book of photography from Basil Pao, […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (April 2023)
“The Vedanta Temple: Our Second, Deeper Home”—a short essay for the Santa Barbara Independent, October 15, 2022 “A Man of Parts”–a review of A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carre, for Air Mail, December 3, 2022 A discussion of le Carre, on “Monday Meeting,” the Air Mail podcast, December 5, 2022 My annual […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (November 2022)
Around Deer’s Slope”–an essay on walking for the book Where My Feet Fall, published by William Collins in Britain and excerpted in Orion, as “Never the Same River Twice,” March 16, 2022 “At a Loss”–an essay on Juzo Itami’s film The Funeral, for a new Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-Ray released on May 17, 2022, […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (March 2022)
“On Travel-Writing”—an interview with Rick Steves, broadcast on public radio stations across the U.S. on November 7, 2021 “The Future of Hope”—a conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert broadcast for the “On Being” show and podcast on public radio stations across the U.S. on November 18, 2021 “Navigating the Poles”—an Opinion piece on traveling between Japan and […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (October 2021)
“A Scientist of Sorrow”–a review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun for Air-Mail, February 27, 2021 “All That We Can’t Leave Behind”—an essay on the photographs of Robert Voit, to accompany the exhibition “Aequilibrium” in Berlin, March, 2021. An imaginative essay on “Why I Write” and a long interview on writing for the inaugural […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (February 2021)
“Chi ha dimenticato vuole transcinarci in un mondo di muri”–An interview with La Repubblica on the 75th anniversary of the dropping of a bomb on Hiroshima—August 6, 2020 “The Best Reason to Go to College”—an Op-Ed on the beginning of the new school year, for The New York Times, September 7, 2020 “The Power of […]