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 ...

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 ...

"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." , it's also a four-wheeled middle finger to ...

‘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, ...

What aspects of religion should atheists adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual, ...

Alain de Botton's new philosophical treatise, "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work," feels like an intellectual acid trip without the stimulants. He focuses your gaze where you have never even ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the best books I have ever read, fiction or non-fiction, is Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Penguin, 2009). Brilliantly insightful, gorgeously written, and laugh-out-loud ...