After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, ...

How to Listen. For decades, starting in 1991 after his house in Santa Barbara burned to the ground, the travel writer and ...

By Anderson Tepper Pico Iyer seems to have ... sweeping views of the bucolic California town and the ocean shimmering in the distance, and it provided Iyer with an early sense of refuge, he ...

When the cacophony of the world grows too loud, author Pico Iyer knows just where to go. For decades, the British travel writer has been journeying from his home in Japan to sit in silence at Big ...

Pico Iyer has visited a small, Benedictine hermitage in California more than 100 times in the last 30 years. He isn't ...

Editor’s note: Find the latest coverage of the Pacific Palisades wildfire here. Wildfires began breaking out in Southern California Tuesday morning as a life-threatening, widespread windstorm ...

Framed by the conflict between Islamic and secular Western values, this novel from travel writer, critic and novelist Iyer (Cuba and the Night; The Global Soul; etc.) is part mystery, part ...

One person is dead after a fiery crash in Pico Rivera Wednesday morning ... She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Hylton has previously worked at NBC LA, Telemundo ...