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Pico Iyer


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The Deformative Years

The Truth in Search of Itself

The Mahabharata of Literary Festivals

Forget glitchy microphones and cheap white wine. The Jaipur Literature Festival is the biggest and best of its kind in the world

A Cry from the Submerged Life

Ticket to Telluride

America’s most highbrow—and low-key—film festival turns 50

Telluride Film Festival

A Man of Parts

John le CarrĂ© was always obsessed with controlling his narrative. Following the publication of a tell-all by one of his mistresses, the spy novelist is once again seeking to set the record straight—this time, from the grave

A Journal of the Plague Year

Kuwait from on High

Sane, Economy-Class Asian-Americans

The Magic of Jan Morris

Will we ever have another like the Welsh writer extraordinaire who managed to write as beautifully on Che Guevara as she did on the virtues of sneezing?

A Scientist of Sorrow

The Playboy Philosopher

How to Be Cool and Warm at Once

The irreplaceable publisher Sonny Mehta, who died on December 30, possessed the rare ability to unite style and sincerity

Dead Prime Ministers Society

A rare look inside Eton, Britain’s most respected (and reviled) boarding school

The Calm Before the Storm

A letter from Hong Kong

A Home Called Raffles

One hotel for the ages