CultureMagazine | Openings, Podcasts
Let Life Come to You
An excerpt from a conversation between Pico Iyer and Tricycle editor-in-chief James Shaheen
Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer is an essayist for Time magazine, a contributing editor at Tricycle and Conde Nast Traveler, and the author of many books including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, and The Man Within My Head.
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The Lady and the Monk
In 1987, Pico Iyer, author of Video Night in Kathmandu, arrived in Kyoto, Japan, bearing two suitcases and the name of a local Buddhist temple. Determined to learn, from the inside, all that he could of…
Podcasts
Searching for Paradise
In this episode of Tricycle Talks, writer Pico Iyer explores how different cultures have understood the notion of paradise, recounting his travels to the hidden shrines of Tehran and the funeral pyres of Varanasi.
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Length: 1:03:07
Inside Japan as an Outsider
Acclaimed travel and spirituality writer Pico Iyer has written two new books about his life in Japan, Autumn Light (Penguin, April 2019), and the forthcoming A Beginner’s Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations (Penguin, September 2019). Iyer views the books as complimentary: while Autumn Light describes his experience within the culture, A Beginner’s Guide offers his perspective as an outsider. Since marrying and moving in with his wife in her home city of Nara three decades ago, Iyer has become one of the foremost translators of Japanese culture to Western audiences. Iyer discusses his latest books as well as the way impermanence colors Japanese life and what it means to try to understand other cultures at a time when the term globalist has become, in many parts, a dirty word.
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