New Statesman - <![CDATA[Alain de Botton]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/alain_de_botton en <![CDATA[Nature’s vital circles]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2009/03/work-world-artists-places http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2009/03/work-world-artists-places Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:11:38 GMT Alain de Botton Work dominates our lives, yet its places and processes are ignored by artists. Now, more than ever, we must learn to appreciate the world in which we labour

]]> <![CDATA[Diary - Alain de Botton]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200605010002 http://www.newstatesman.com/200605010002 Mon, 01 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT Alain de Botton I've been Booton, Botten, Alan, Alun, Allen, Ellen. My car insurance is made out to a Mr Bottom. My dentist calls me Elaine

]]> <![CDATA[The shame of failure]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200501010030 http://www.newstatesman.com/200501010030 Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:00:00 GMT Alain de Botton 2005: Self-esteem - Today, we all think it's our own fault if we haven't become as rich as Bill Gates

]]> <![CDATA[Diary - Alain de Botton]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200403080002 http://www.newstatesman.com/200403080002 Mon, 08 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT Alain de Botton "Status anxiety" is what we're liable to feel when a good friend calls us up with a piece of what they call "excellent news": they've been promoted or awarded an important prize

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities on holiday: a rough guide]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200209230032 http://www.newstatesman.com/200209230032 Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:00:00 GMT Alain de Botton

]]> <![CDATA[Perhaps because of my early books about love, I've been approached to endorse a Dater Transmitter]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200104300003 http://www.newstatesman.com/200104300003 Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:00:00 GMT Alain de Botton

]]> <![CDATA["Despite the pretensions of his name," wrote the Amazon.com reviewer, "he's no Louis de Bernieres"]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199911290004 http://www.newstatesman.com/199911290004 Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:00:00 GMT Alain de Botton

]]> <![CDATA[Wine, women and prose]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199908230013 http://www.newstatesman.com/199908230013 Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:00:00 GMT Alain de Botton The popular view of the author as glamorous could not be further from the truth. The writer Alain de Botton reveals the humdrum reality behind the myth

]]> <![CDATA[Plato rules, OK?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199812110010 http://www.newstatesman.com/199812110010 Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:00:00 GMT Alain de Botton Alain de Bottonargues that, in our self-help age, the ancient philosophers are inevitably more popular than Derrida, Baudrillard and the deconstructionists

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