From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.For years, Pico Iyer has
From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness--one of our most engaging and discerning travel writers—a unique, indispensable guide to the enigma of contemporary Japan.After thirty-two years in Ja
Iyer argues for the transformative potential for philosophy and political practice of the thought of Maurice Blanchot. The book traces Blanchot's complex negotiations of the thought of Hegel, Heidegge
Rivers are an important part of the Earth. They are home to a variety of life, and humans have come to depend on them for food and transportation. But the actions of humans are harming these important
We all carry people inside our heads—actors, leaders, writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. ? In The Man Within My Head, Pico I
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and id
A wickedly funny and satisfyingly highbrow black comedy about the collapse of Western academic institutions under the weight of neoliberal economics and crushing, widespread idiocy.Lars and W., the tw
The writer Hari Kunzru says “made me feel better about the Apocalypse than I have in ages” is back—with a hilarious coming-of-age love storyThe unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for t
