Pico Iyer is the author of several books, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, and The Global Soul. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other publications and his most recent book is The Man Within My Head. He lives in Japan.
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The McLuhan Galaxy
May 26, 2011
Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!
by Douglas Coupland
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On the Sacred Mountain
April 7, 2011
To a Mountain in Tibet
by Colin Thubron
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Going Mad for Greece
December 23, 2010
The Colossus of Maroussi
by Henry Miller, with an introduction by Will Self and an afterword by Ian S. MacNiven
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Secret Love in the Lost City
November 19, 2009
The Museum of Innocence
by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely
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‘A Hell on Earth’
April 9, 2009
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Royal Flush
October 23, 2008
The Commoner
by John Burnham Schwartz
The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett
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The Return of ‘The Snow Leopard’
September 25, 2008
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Holy Restlessness
June 26, 2008
The Religious Case Against Belief
by James P. Carse
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The Knight of Sunset Boulevard
December 6, 2007
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
by Judith Freeman
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‘A New Kind of Mongrel Fiction’
June 28, 2007
Divisadero
by Michael Ondaatje
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Swans’ Way
April 12, 2007
Devotion
by Howard Norman
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The Buddha’s Cure
March 10, 2005
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
by Pankaj Mishra
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Fairy Tales for Grown-ups
January 13, 2005
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Summing Him Up
December 16, 2004
Somerset Maugham: A Life
by Jeffrey Meyers
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The Perfect Traveler
November 18, 2004
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Passage to Bombay
October 24, 2002
Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
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Morning in America
October 10, 2002
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.
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I Vant to Be Alone
June 27, 2002
A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses
by Isabel Colegate
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He Who Played the King
January 17, 2002
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
edited by John Lahr
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On the Road
May 17, 2001
Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment
Richard Bernstein
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The Road from Mandalay
March 8, 2001
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
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Foreign Affair
October 5, 2000
When We Were Orphans
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Room at the Top
October 21, 1999
Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
by Sherry B. Ortner
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Lost Horizons
January 15, 1998
Kundun a film directed by Martin Scorsese
Seven Years in Tibet a film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Mystically Yours
May 23, 1996
Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai
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The Empire Strikes Back
June 22, 1995
Reef
by Romesh Gunesekera
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Tibet’s Quiet Revolution
March 19, 2011
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Reading in a World of Images
October 6, 2008