Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project - a joyful, democratically-minded concept to share quality architecture in the UK - was borne out of personal crisis. The Swiss-born philosopher and ...

This sophisticated gazebo of a book is the latest dispatch from the Swiss-born, London-based author of the influential handbook How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (1997). Promising to teach ...

On a recent weekday evening in London’s literary Bloomsbury quarter, a group of mostly white thirtysomethings gathered for a seminar called “How to Be Creative” at the School of Life, a London-based ...

What do you expect from the news? Asking this is a bit like asking someone to describe his or her ideal mate: You’re bound to learn more about the fixations and attitudes of that individual than about ...

In posting this angry message, Mr. de Botton joined the novelist Alice Hoffman in the unhappy ranks of authors who have lately given into the temptation of lashing out at critics publicly over a bad ...

Philosopher Alain de Botton says it’s time for those who believe in religion and those who don’t to stop denigrating each other and find common ground on art, community and morality. Alain De Botton ...

Over the years, Alain de Botton has published 11 nonfiction books that dispense accessible philosophies and insights that can be easily applied to modern life. From “How Proust Can Change Your Life” ...

Editor’s Note: Alain de Botton is a writer, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur. His most recent book is called “The News: A User’s Manual”, a study of the effects of the news on modern ...

Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure ...

“The Course of Love” is no ordinary novel, and no wonder. Its author is no ordinary guy. Now 46, Zurich-born Alain de Botton was raised speaking German and French; he earned his master’s degree in ...

‘The baby has been thrown out with the bathwater. That’s the gist of British writer Alain de Botton’s latest book, “Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion” (Pantheon, ...