After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, where he found comfort and compassion in solitude. His new memoir is Aflame.

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

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 Sur’s New Camaldoli Hermitage.

Pico Iyer has visited a small, Benedictine hermitage in California more than 100 times in the last 30 years. He isn't religious, but his life has been transformed by these times spent in silence.

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 ...

The Half-Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer has been my other travel companion, with essays on Sri Lanka, Kashmir, and Jerusalem on the beauty and violence simmering beneath many ...

The Pico Blanco property is made up of two parcels of undeveloped land that was formerly part of Camp Pico Blanco Boy Scout camp and was once owned by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst,

Some red flag warnings still in effect until 3 p.m. While most red flag warnings that were issued for parts of Southern California have expired, red flag warnings for the Santa Susana Mountains ...

Ming Pan receives funding from the California Department of Water Resources and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Dry conditions across Southern California set the stage for a ...

As a lifelong traveler, I felt in my bones how home is not where you happen to live so much as what lives inside you: my mother, my wife-to-be, the songs and stories that still played inside my head. I still had my words, the poems I’d learned from, my inner savings account.

As Fernando Lopez Sr. watched live footage of the wildfires raging across Southern California last week, he immediately thought of horses.

Two lawsuits filed Monday against Southern California Edison allege the utility failed to de-energize its power equipment and clear brush where a blaze sparked near Pasadena, one in a cascade of ...