The guilt of outgrowing a friend. The emptiness after success. Seven books that name what you have always felt but never ...

Most self-help is consumed once and forgotten. Ten books that change shape on a second reading and quietly do the work the rest cannot., Books, Times Now ...

Alain de Botton is one of my favorite living writers. Best known for brilliant, genre-rattling books that include How Proust Can Change Your Life, Essays in Love, Status Anxiety, and most recently How ...

Alain de Botton is a phenomenon. A public intellectual who sells millions of books. A whimsical freethinker who dares to make high-brown subject matter useful and relatable. An atheist who believes in ...

Perhaps the greatest irony of this life is that the only certainty in it — our death — is itself a mystery. We know we are going to die, but we don’t actually know what that means. We struggle to ...