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 ...

I happened to read Alain de Botton's latest book, "Religion for Atheists," in the same week that the burning of Qurans by American forces in Afghanistan led to multiple deaths. It was also the week ...

“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 ...

Robert Louis Stevenson told us it's better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though increasingly, because of the expense, hassle and guilt about our carbon footprints, many have decided it's better ...

Over the last decade, British author Alain de Botton has built an empire out of his cotton-candy approach to big ideas. In a fistful of hits—including Status Anxiety, The Architecture of Happiness, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The new book “Art As Therapy” (Phaidon Press, $39.95) suggests radical ideas about how we might appreciate and view art. Authors Alain de Botton and John ...

Feel free to jump around. The book starts slowly, but when de Botton hits his stride, he can be as amusing as Monty Python and as provocative as Karl Marx, another continental who left Europe for ...

‘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, ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Alain De Botton is a Founder and Chair for the School of Life with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 Speech as an Author. The year with ...