After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, ...

Pico Iyer, in Aflame, reflects on solitude, gratitude, the necessity of silence, and interconnectedness, promoting a ...

These days, I can’t stop thinking about the hazy morning in June 1990, when I walked all the way up our narrow mountain road ...

How to Listen. For decades, starting in 1991 after his house in Santa Barbara burned to the ground, the travel writer and ...

We’re surrounded by ever more New Age sanctuaries, retreat-centres and yoga-inflected spas, yet what will be lost if formal ...

Pico Iyer has visited a small, Benedictine hermitage in California more than 100 times in the last 30 years. He isn't ...