The News

From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a thought-provoking look at the position that news has achieved in our lives.
     The news is everywhere. We can't stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds?
     We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton, but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. In his dazzling new book, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories--including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political scandal--and submits them to unusually intense analysis with a view to helping… Keep Reading