The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board.
The history of still life painting with oil paints
Alain de Botton's psychobabble-free self-help course for the philosophically minded.
A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.
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