Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer’s most recent books include The Art of Stillness and The Man Within My Head.
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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.’
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Issue 138
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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Issue 127
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 & 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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Issue 116
The Terminal Check
Pico Iyer
‘The world is all mixed up these days, and America can no longer claim immunity.’