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Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer’s most recent books include The Art of Stillness and The Man  Within My Head.

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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Out of the Cell

Pico Iyer

‘I was inside a silence that was not an absence of noise so much as the living presence of everything I habitually walked – or sleep-walked – past.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | Issue 138 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138 padlock

Pico Iyer | Is Travel Writing Dead?

Pico Iyer

‘The writer on place has to go further inward, into the realm of silence and nuance and personal enquiry.’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 127 padlock

The Beauty of the Package

Pico Iyer

‘You can throw yourself into any fantasy, she (and her country) might have been saying, so long as you don’t mistake it for real life.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | Issue 127
Essays & Memoir | Issue 127

Dividing the Kingdom

Pico Iyer

‘I get on the train to hear the funereal call of my boyhood: ‘Reading, Didcot Parkway, Oxford.’’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 116 padlock

The Terminal Check

Pico Iyer

‘The world is all mixed up these days, and America can no longer claim immunity.’

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