Some New Pieces of Iyer (October 2014)
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 […]
Some Fresh Pieces of Iyer (June 2014)
“A Midsummer Day’s Dream,” an essay on cricket for Wisden India 2014 Almanack: February 2014; “The Winds of Changelessness”—an essay on the 3rd anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake—World Post, March 10, 2014; “Night and Day”—an essay on the collective subconscious in a geopolitical context—World Post, March 17, 2014; “The Folly of Thinking We […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer
“Hyderabad in Five Colors,” for the New York Review of Books blog, September 5, 2013 “The Value of Suffering,” an essay for The New York Times, September 8, 2013 “Why I Love the National Geographic”–The Guardian, December 8, 2013; “Proust, The Accidental Buddhist”–New York Review of Books blog, December 24, 2013 “The City at the Center of […]
A few recent pieces of Iyer
“Leonard Cohen burns, and we burn with him,” a 10-page meditation on the Zen singer-songwriter in Shambhala Sun magazine (April 2013); “Terrence Malick’s Song of Songs”–an appraisal of To the Wonder for Harpers.com, April 22, 2013; “Reading My Way to the Threshold of the Great Unanswerable”–a discussion with Patrick McMahon in Inquiring Mind magazine, Spring 2013; […]
An Online Conversation
An online discussion with New Zealand writer, Alexander Bisley, December, 2012, Mr. Bisley later used some of this in articles he wrote for the Dominion Post and other New Zealand papers. His website is http://lumiere.net.nz 1) “What means the fact—which is so common, so universal—that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can […]
Songs From The Deep
(An introduction to the 17-set complete collection of Leonard Cohen albums released by Sony Records for online sales, 2011) Some artists come from the Mississippi Delta, some from the South Side of Chicago. But a few, a very few, come from nowhere you can name and you’ll never get to the bottom of them. People […]
An interview with Pico Iyer on The Man Within My Head
Q: This is an eccentric book, and I’m not sure what readers will make of it. A: That’s not so terrible; one of the things I tried very hard to do here was create a weird, hybrid form of sorts, in which you never know what’s going to happen next—or who exactly is going to […]