Pico Iyer

The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home is a 2001 collection of essays by Pico Iyer, reflecting on the increasingly globalized world and the ramifications that this has for him personally. The book belongs in the corpus of travel writing, though its series of chapters often offer a highly …

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is a 2008 book by Pico Iyer. The Dalai Lama calls himself "a simple Buddhist monk", but he is also a public figure who frequents religious gatherings and official meetings. He is also a politician on the global stage. The book is an attempt to capture some …