Alain de Botton

Articles by Alain de Botton

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Nature’s vital circles

  • 26 March 2009
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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

Diary - Alain de Botton

  • 01 May 2006

I've been Booton, Botten, Alan, Alun, Allen, Ellen. My car insurance is made out to a Mr Bottom. My dentist calls me Elaine

The shame of failure

  • 01 January 2005

2005: Self-esteem - Today, we all think it's our own fault if we haven't become as rich as Bill Gates

Diary - Alain de Botton

  • 08 March 2004

"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

Celebrities on holiday: a rough guide

  • 23 September 2002

Perhaps because of my early books about love, I've been approached to endorse a Dater Transmitter

  • 30 April 2001

"Despite the pretensions of his name," wrote the Amazon.com reviewer, "he's no Louis de Bernieres"

  • 29 November 1999

Wine, women and prose

  • 23 August 1999

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

Plato rules, OK?

  • 11 December 1998

Alain de Bottonargues that, in our self-help age, the ancient philosophers are inevitably more popular than Derrida, Baudrillard and the deconstructionists

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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