Alain de Botton

Articles By Alain De Botton

Monday, 13 September 2010 Read more...

Rockin’ vicar the Rev Richard Coles is not only a C of E priest...

Schubert’s Fifth Symphony is one of those pieces whose existence in the modern world hangs on the most tenuous of threads. After its posthumous...

An opening video montage presents us with a rogues' gallery of powerful men who have done bad things. Plenty of the usual suspects...

High on the hill of fascinating New Ross in Country Wexford sits its greatest treasure, the ruined 13th century Gothic beauty of St Mary’s. Unless...

This genial oddity – its pithier French title is Complètement Cramé, meaning something along the lines of completely burnt out –...

Warren Ellis is Nick Cave’s wild-maned Bad Seeds right-hand man and The Dirty Three’s frenzied violinist. Justin Kurzel’s Australian film subjects...

Star casting has, since the pandemic, done much to restore the fortunes of commercial theatre. And, when they can pull off a similar deal, the...

Into the Groove is Justin Lewis’s follow-up to 2023’s Don’t Stop the Music, in which he traced 40 years of pop history by...

Fans of Alexandra Fuller’s fine memoir of her childhood in Africa may be wary of this film adaptation by the actress Embeth Davidtz,...