Author Pico Iyer is obsessed with the big questions of life. He’s written books about the Dalai Lama; about how to approach the end of life with grace; and about how to embrace silence and solitude.

Author Pico Iyer and Pravrajika Vrajaprana, a Vedanta nun, talk with KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian about the purpose of pilgrimage in modern day times following his interview with NYT writer Timothy Egan ...

Southern California families who have lost everything the in recent wildfires are reckoning with what it means to start over. Writer Pico Iyer's eerily timed memoir, Aflame: Learning from Silence, ...

Pico Iyer approaches every place he visits in the world like a new novel. Each new country the travel writer and novelist visits presents new stories to uncover, new characters to learn about and new ...

(RNS) — Recalling the trauma of losing his worldly goods, the novelist and travel writer uses silence as a path to peace amid constant turmoil. (RNS) — Pico Iyer is no stranger to the disaster now ...

It might be said that the seeds for the popular Speaking with Pico series first sprouted in a class at UCSB. Religious Studies professor Nandini Iyer (Pico Iyer’s late mother) had former Arts & ...