Profile of Pico Iyer
Our planet remains inexhaustible, as inexhaustible as our capacity for instruction and exploration.
In an age of distractions, reading stills the senses, a much fuller world in which one learns to hear what’s not there, to see what’s never shown
"Y2K?" It sounded like one of those Highland flings that had led to Tuppy Glossop's expulsion from Gloucestershire. "The Millennium Bug," Jeeves went on. "The Glitch to End all Glitches."
In Mandalay, in 1985, I chanced to meet a trishaw-driver at the stadium as I fumbled off the overnight train from Rangoon...