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“The Beauty of What We’ll Never Know” —a talk for ted..com (originally delivered as the closing talk at the TED Summit in Banff, June 30, 2016), posted October 11, 2016 “How the Light Goes Out”—an essay on Leonard Cohen’s new album, “You Want it Darker,” on Walrus.com, October 20, 2016, updated and revised in The […]

“A Valentine Day’s treat from Japan”—a short essay on how to savor the romantic’s holiday on a single short street in Kyoto, in Sweet, February 14, 2016. A long essay on a new biography of film-maker Terrence Malick—The Australian, May 28, 2016. “The Great Wide Open”—a travel-essay on a recent trip to Mongolia, in Travel […]

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: September 29 Public conversation, Banff Centre for the ArtsBanff, Canada January 25, 2017 Conversation with Richard Rodriguez, Stanford U.Palo Alto, California January 28-29, 2017 Rancho Mirage Writers’ FestivalRancho Mirage, California April 17-22 Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman U.Orange, California […]

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: April 9-10 Los Angeles Times Festival of BooksLos Angeles, California April 11-15 Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman UniversityOrange, California April 12 Literary Pub(lishing) Crawl, Chapman UniversityOrange, California April 13 Conversation with Orange County Register Book ClubSanta Ana, California April […]

If you’re interested in hearing Pico Iyer talk, here are a few dates and places to try: February 18 Keynote, India Infoline Global Investors’ Conference Mumbai, India February 29 Conversation with Sebastiao Salgado, ALOUD series Los Angeles, California March 2 Conversation with Sebastiao Salgado, UCSB Santa Barbara, California April 9-10 Los Angeles Times Festival of […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

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.

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.

