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 ...

‘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, ...

“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 ...

Philosophers are as important to brands and businesses as strategists or IT experts. That’s the view of writer and philosopher Alain De Botton, who along with his colleagues at the philosophy center ...

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, ...

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 ...

Over the years, Alain de Botton has published 11 nonfiction books that dispense accessible philosophies and insights that can be easily applied to modern life. From “How Proust Can Change Your Life” ...

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 ...