After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, ...

As a lifelong traveler, I felt in my bones how home is not where you happen to live so much as what lives inside you: my ...

How to Listen. For decades, starting in 1991 after his house in Santa Barbara burned to the ground, the travel writer and ...

When the cacophony of the world grows too loud, author Pico Iyer knows just where to go. For decades, the British travel writer has been journeying from his home in Japan to sit in silence at Big ...

We’re surrounded by ever more New Age sanctuaries, retreat-centres and yoga-inflected spas, yet what will be lost if formal ...

Pico Iyer has visited a small, Benedictine hermitage in California more than 100 times in the last 30 years. He isn't ...