On ‘Art as Therapy’ by Alan de Botton

By Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Book Review, December 13, 2013 Who’s afraid of Alain de Botton? At 43, he’s already an elder in the church of self-help, the master of spinning sugary “secular sermons” out of literature (“How Proust Can Change Your Life”), philosophy (“The Consolations of Philosophy”), architecture (“The Architecture of Happiness”).Continue reading “On ‘Art as Therapy’ by Alan de Botton”