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 has spent much of his career asking a deceptively simple question. How can literature help us live better lives? Through books such as 'The Consolations of Philosophy' and 'The Course ...

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 ...

Alain de Botton (December 20, 1969) is a Swiss-born British author and public speaker. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy’s relevance to everyday life.

For nearly three decades, Alain de Botton has been saying the things we all feel but rarely articulate: that love is complicated, that ambition can wound as much as it uplifts, and that wisdom, if it ...

Marx remarks somewhere that all true philosophy begins with the criticism of religion. If he had lived through the postwar era, he would have added: and the religion of a triumphant capitalism is ...

In the summer of 1909, a frail, asthmatic failure retired to a cork-lined room in Paris and began writing a novel about time and memory. Over the next 15 years, Marcel Proust toiled to create the ...