Pico Iyer is the author of 17 works of fiction and nonfiction. Known for travel writing and crossing cultures, his best-sellers include, most recently, “Aflame,” “The Half Known Life,” “The Art of Stillness” and “Video Night in Kathmandu.” Iyer has also been a regular essayist for nearly 40 years, writing for more than 250 periodicals globally including TIME, The New York Times, Harper’s and the Financial Times. He has written a screenplay for Miramax, liner notes for Leonard Cohen and introductions to over 90 books. A frequent speaker, his four TED talks have received over 11 million views. In 2019 alone, Iyer was Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, guest director of the Telluride Film Festival and writer-in-residence at Raffles Hotel Singapore. Earlier, he was a staff writer at TIME and taught writing and literature at Harvard.
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Essayist Pico Iyer and happiness guru Arthur Brooks reflect on how and why happiness is to be found even when the world feels like it’s falling apart. For starters, they’ve bo...
With so much of Western philosophy centered on the individual, we can only understand those around us in comparison — and competition — with ourselves. There are less self-cen...