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Alain de Botton

April 2020

  • equestrian statue of Marcus Aureliu in Rome.

    Books blog
    ‘Dress rehearsal for catastrophe’: how Stoics are speaking to locked-down readers

    Sales of works by ancient Roman Marcus Aurelius have seen a sharp uptick in recent months. Which makes calm sense

October 2016

  • Alain de Botton and Katie Price

    Lost in showbiz
    Alain de Botton and Katie Price’s meeting of minds – and sharp tongues

    The great philosopher is interviewing the writer, business mogul and former model at his School for Life, and it promises to provoke more than intellectual interest

May 2016

  • ‘They both get tired, believe the other to be doing less to help and start using the children as weapons against the other’

    Digested read
    The Course of Love by Alain de Botton – digested read

    John Crace boils down the relationship advice of an emotional colossus to a condescending 850 words
  • Alain De Botton at his office in north London, Britain - 07 May 2013<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mark Chilvers/REX_Shutterstock (2334774e) Alain de Botton Alain De Botton at his office in north London, Britain - 07 May 2013

    The Course of Love review – philosophy overload

    Alain de Botton’s story of a marriage is illuminated but also obstructed by philosophical interjections
  • Two gold wedding rings

    Critical eye
    Book reviews roundup: A Very Expensive Poison; The Course of Love; The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History

    What the critics thought of A Very Expensive Poison by Luke Harding, The Course of Love by Alain de Botton and The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History by Frank Dikötter

April 2016

  • Careful examination of emotions and behaviours … Alain de Botton.

    The Course of Love by Alain de Botton review – affairs, childcare and Ikea glassware

  • Alain De Botton, who will take on your questions.

    Culture webchats
    Alain de Botton – your questions answered, on art, God and ugliness

February 2016

  • Peter Gabriel.

    What's the point of music? Ask Peter Gabriel

    Whether releasing sadness or sending shivers down our spines, the songs in our ‘emotional toolbox’ can transform daily life … if we learn how to use them

July 2015

  • Golden gate park

    Books blog
    Books that make great conversation starters – let's talk!

    Sometimes you just have to talk about a book, even if you’ve never met the person holding it. We’ve been sharing stories of such encounters all week, but what are the books that introduced you to the friends you hadn’t yet met?

June 2015

  • Yolande

    Extraordinary tale of Alain de Botton’s ‘heroine’ grandmother

    Yolande Gabai de Botton’s adventures in a spy-filled Middle East are told in a new film

November 2014

  • Nicholson Baker

    Top 10s
    The top 10 books about reading

    Top 10: Books about books, where literature is integral to life, are a genre in themselves, as terrific titles by authors from Nicholson Baker to Geoff Dyer very readably show

August 2014

  • Tilda Swinton in Orlando

    Top 10s
    The top 10 fictitious biographies

    From Nabokov to Woolf to Coetzee, novelist Jonathan Gibbs selects the best imaginary lives presented as the real thing
  • bookshop

    Chinese empresses, Gruffalos and Alain de Botton: Day two at the Edinburgh international book festival

    From the Jesus and Mary Chain to the literary sensation of the moment, Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard, we bring you the highlights of the second day of the festival
  • Miley Cyrus

    Books blog
    Alain de Botton in quotes: "The news promotes a toxic society of envy"

    Why celebrity role models are OK, smartphones are not, and we should all be more biased than the BBC. An hour of philosophical crowd-pleasing distilled into key quotes

June 2014

  • Peter Duggan's artoons
    Peter Duggan's artoon: Alain gets to De Botton of Roy Lichtenstein

  • Sky News head John Ryley

    Sky News chief hits out at Alain de Botton’s criticism of news media

May 2014

  • Peter Duggan's artoons
    Peter Duggan's Artoon: Alain de Botton's art therapy comes unstuck

    Peter Duggan
  • Teju Cole

    Books blog
    10 authors who are brilliant at Twitter

  • Geoff Dyer, books

    Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George HW Bush review – Geoff Dyer's engaging warship adventures

  • Nick Cohen

    A hollow European culture is writ large in Amsterdam

    Nick Cohen
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