(RNS) — Pico Iyer is no stranger to the disaster now visiting residents of Los Angeles. In 1990, a wildfire burned down his family home in Southern California and everything inside. In his latest book ...

The 45th annual awards will recognize outstanding literary achievements in 13 categories, with winners to be announced on ...

Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high. Thirty-four years after that conflagration turned his life ...

Over thirty years ago, author Pico Iyer was displaced from his Santa Barbara home by a wildfire. Looking for a temporary shelter and a place to retreat for a while, Iyer fled north to Big Sur. There ...

Writer Pico Iyer's eerily timed memoir, Aflame: Learning from Silence, speaks to that experience. In 1990, Iyer was alone in his mother's house in Santa Barbara when a wildfire swept through the ...

A different, more interior version of that quest has also privately captivated journalist Pico Iyer for some time. Iyer has made a career filing sophisticated travel dispatches from around the ...

At the Ideas of India Summit 2025, Pico Iyer spoke about the importance of silence in spiritual practices, comparing the ...

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high. Thirty-four years ...

(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 ...