Jan 15, 2025 · Southern California families who have lost everything the in recent wildfires are reckoning with what it means to start over. Writer Pico Iyer's eerily timed memoir, Aflame: …

Jan 18, 2025 · The fires that were an occasional threat when our house burned down are regular visitors now to California and across the West. Insurance policies in these parts are ever …

Jan 15, 2025 · After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, where he found comfort and compassion in solitude. …

Jan 23, 2025 · Southern California families who have lost everything the in recent wildfires are reckoning with what it means to start over. Writer Pico Iyer’s eerily timed memoir, Aflame: …

5 days ago · Such is the case with Pico Iyer's new book, Aflame: Learning from Silence. On its pages, Iyer shares wisdom from his three decades of visiting a small monastery in California …

6 days ago · Looking for a temporary shelter and a place to retreat for a while, Iyer fled north to Big Sur. There he found solace at a secluded Benedictine hermitage offering a peaceful, …

Aflame: Learning from Silence is a 2025 memoir by Pico Iyer, published by Riverhead Books. It concerns Iyer's experiences with his many retreats to a hermitage in Big Sur and his …

Jan 8, 2025 · Flames — both those within us and the ones that continually threaten the wilds and homes of California — play a pivotal role in Iyer’s text. Arriving at the hermitage for the first …

Jan 3, 2025 · After a lifetime of travel around the world, Pico Iyer has increasingly focused on inner landscapes. Credit: Kentaro Takahashi for The New York Times . By Anderson Tepper. …

2 days ago · Pico Iyer is one of the great storytellers of our time. He has traveled the world for decades, writing for periodicals or doing research for one of his many books. During much of …