Philosopher and writer Alain de Botton explains the complexities of love and relationships, and what dating apps get wrong in finding the ideal partner. Psychologist Tracy Dennis Tiwary says anxiety ...

Alain de Botton’s words keep circulating online because they comfort, challenge, and remind us that emotional honesty is the ...

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 ...

“Few of us are remotely normal sexually,” de Botton (The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work) writes in this accessible philosophical meditation. But though “[w]e are universally deviant,” the author opines ...

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 ...

On a recent weekday evening in London’s literary Bloomsbury quarter, a group of mostly white thirtysomethings gathered for a seminar called “How to Be Creative” at the School of Life, a London-based ...

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On the C-SPAN Networks: Alain De Botton is a Founder and Chair for the School of Life with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 Speech as an Author. The year with ...