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

(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 ...

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 ...

Jérôme Sueur’s “Natural History of Silence” and Pico Iyer’s “Aflame” explore the quiet (and the sounds) that sustain us ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Pico Iyer recalled how he was left with just a toothbrush after his home burned down in what was then one of California's ...

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 ...