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Pico Iyer

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Heaven’s Door

From The Half Known Life, which will be published this month by Riverhead Books. Four hours in Iran, and already I was having to rethink almost everything. The local guide…

by Pico Iyer,

Freedom from Choice

By Pico Iyer, from A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, out this month from Knopf. Iyer, a British-American essayist and novelist, has lived in Nara, Japan, since 1992. Japan is the…

by Pico Iyer,

I Told You When I Came I Was a Stranger

Leonard Cohen’s first public musical performance

by Pico Iyer, on February 14, 2014

Terrence Malick’s Song of Songs

Does To the Wonder reveal a director lost in his own vision?

by Pico Iyer, on April 22, 2013

Nothing Serious

P. G. Wodehouse and the costs of innocence

by Pico Iyer,

From Eden to Eton

One boy’s transatlantic education

by Pico Iyer,

The mystery of influence

Why Raymond Chandler persists while so many more respected writers are forgotten

by Pico Iyer,

The last refuge

On the promise of the New Canadian fiction

by Pico Iyer,