Pico Iyer is a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He 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.
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Leonard Cohen’s Holy Dove
April 25, 2013
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‘Masters of Doing Nothing at All’
February 7, 2013
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Somalia: Diving into the Wreck
November 8, 2012
Crossbones
by Nuruddin Farah
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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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Cities of Sleep
March 21, 2013
The content of my dreams has long ceased to interest me; but their proportions, the way they rearrange the things I thought I cared about, the life I imagined I was leading, won’t go away.
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Tibet’s Quiet Revolution
March 19, 2011
It’s been startling to witness mass demonstrations in countries across the Middle East for freedom from autocracy, while, in the Tibetan community, a die-hard champion of “people power” tries to dethrone himself and his people keep asking him to stay on. Again and again the Dalai Lama (who tends to be more radical and less romantic than most of his followers) has sought to find ways to give up power, and his community has sought to find ways to ensure he can’t.
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Pico Iyer on the Dalai Lama
April 6, 2009
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Reading in a World of Images
October 6, 2008