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 […]
Upcoming events (October 2021)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: October 14 Panel discussion on Thoreau (online)Politics & Prose Bookstore October 27 Panel discussion on Thoreau (online)Huntington Library October 28 Conversation with Vijay Gupta, UCSBSanta Barbara, California November 25 Panel on Jan Morris (online)Royal Society of Literature, London […]
Upcoming events (February 2021)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: February 16, 17, 18, 2021 Two lectures and a conversation (online) Santa Fe Workshops March 6 A class on creativity (with Michael Shapiro), online Book Passage/Extended Sessions March 14 An interview with Kazuo Ishiguro Book Passage/Extended Sessions March […]
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 […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (July 2020)
“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 […]
Upcoming events (July 2020)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: October 12 Conversation(online) with Barbara Kingsolver, UCSB Santa Barbara, California December 3 Conversation(online) with Cheryl Strayed, UCSB Santa Barbara, California April 4-9, 2021 TED Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia April 12 Conversation with Parul Sehgal, Greg Cowles, Chapman U. Orange, […]
Upcoming events (October 2019)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer speak, here are a few dates and places to try: October 3 Conversation with Philip Glass, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California October 6 Public interview, Live Talks L.A., Santa Monica, California October 7 Reading, Laguna Beach Books, Orange County, California October 9 Reading, Book Passage, Corte Madera, California October 10 […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (October 2019)
“Japan still inhabits its own ancestral universe”–An essay on Japan for TIME magazine, April 22, 2019 “With New Emperor, Japan Enters the Era of `Joyful Harmony’ “—An Op-Ed on the ascent of a new Emperor in Japan, World Post, Berggruen Institute—April 26, 2019 “The beautiful art-filled Japanese islands left behind by the modern world”—An essay […]
Pico Iyer on Love, Life and Mortality – Live at #ISF 2019
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A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, Asia Society, New York
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