Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (January 2016)
“Empty Cities”—a meditation on Las Vegas and Pyongyang, NYR Daily, the New York Review of Books blog, August 13, 2015. “History Has no Place’”—a mistitled essay on Japan’s unsentimental taking care of sentiment—New York Times T Magazine, August 23, 2015. “The Disappearance of Self in Japan”—an essay for the Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture—Huffnington […]
Some Recent Pieces of Iyer (August 2015)
“The Man in the White Tunic”—a tiny vignette from a recent trip to Kashmir, appearing in BBC Travel, April 29, 2015 “It’s Not a Small World After All”—an essay for Toronto’s Globe & Mail, June 7, 2015 “On the Road with the Dalai Lama”—a new essay in Shambhala Sun’s July 2015 Collector’s Edition booklet commemorating […]
Upcoming events (January 2017)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: January 19-22, 2017 Rancho Mirage Writers’ Festival Rancho Mirage, California Many more engagements are currently in the works.
Upcoming events (September 2016)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: September 22-26, 2016 25th Annual Graham Greene Festival Berkhamsted, England Many more engagements are currently in the works.
Upcoming events (May 2016)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: May 17-21, 2016 Festival of Faiths Louisville, Kentucky Many more engagements are currently in the works.
Upcoming events (April 2016)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: April 10-15, 2016 Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University Orange, California April, 2016 United States Military Academy West Point, New York Many more engagements are currently in the works.
Upcoming events (October 2015)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: October 12, 2015 Conversation with environmental visionary Paul Relis Santa Barbara, California October 13, 2015 Conversation with Paul Theroux Los Angeles, California October 16, 2015 Moderating of a discussion between H.H. the Dalai Lama and Richard Blum, American […]
Upcoming events (September 2015)
If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: September 20, 2015 Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn, New York September 25-27, 2015 Pebble Beach Ideas Festival Carmel, California Many more engagements are currently in the works.
Pico Iyer USC Baccalaureate Speech, USC Baccalaureate 2015
Watch it here
Some Fresh Pieces of Iyer (May 2015)
“The Ultimate McTraveler—One Man’s Quest to See the World through McDonald’s”—Yahoo Travel, February 26, 2015 “Negotiating with Iran and Farhadi’s Films”–an essay on the films of Arshad Farhadi—The World Post, April 22, 2015. “Resume vs. Eulogy”—a review of David Brooks’s The Road to Character—The New York Times Book Review, April 26, 2015