Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer’s The Open Road, about the fourteenth Dalai Lama and globalism, was published this spring. (June 2008)

From the Review

June 26, 2008: Holy Restlessness

The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse

December 6, 2007: The Knight of Sunset Boulevard

The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman

June 28, 2007: 'A New Kind of Mongrel Fiction'

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

April 12, 2007: Swans' Way

Devotion by Howard Norman

March 10, 2005: The Buddha's Cure

An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra

January 13, 2005: Fairy Tales for Grown-ups

December 16, 2004: Summing Him Up

Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers

November 18, 2004: The Perfect Traveler

February 13, 2003: The Unquiet Englishman

The Quiet American directed by Phillip Noyce, based on the novel by Graham Greene

October 24, 2002: Passage to Bombay

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

October 10, 2002: Morning in America

Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley Jr.

Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches by William F. Buckley Jr.

Nuremberg: The Reckoning by William F. Buckley Jr.

June 27, 2002: I Vant to Be Alone

A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses by Isabel Colegate

January 17, 2002: He Who Played the King

The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan edited by John Lahr

May 17, 2001: On the Road

Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment Richard Bernstein

March 8, 2001: The Road from Mandalay

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

October 5, 2000: Foreign Affair

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

October 21, 1999: Room at the Top

Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering by Sherry B. Ortner

January 15, 1998: Lost Horizons

Kundun a film directed by Martin Scorsese

Seven Years in Tibet a film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

May 23, 1996: Mystically Yours

Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai

June 22, 1995: The Empire Strikes Back

Reef by Romesh Gunesekera

Books by Pico Iyer

Abandon (2003)
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (2000)
Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions (1997)
Cuba and the Night: A Novel (1995)
Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World (1993)
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (1991)
Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East (1988)
The Recovery of Innocence (1984)