Status Anxiety - Reviews
Jennifer Levasseur in The Times Picayunne, 25 July 2004
It's a common sight. A lover's quarrel between a young man and woman - say, at a coffee shop - erupts. The woman screams, shakes her fist, curses, points. She hurls her drink at the man, nearly overturning her chair as she scrambles to make a dramatic exit. More...
Adam Baer in The Atlantic Monthly, June 2004
In 1997, Alain de Botton, a twenty-eight-year-old Swiss-born Londoner with a Cambridge degree and three hit novels on the shelves, took it upon himself to teach a broad, thinking, audience to benefit from Marcel Proust's most enlightened virtues More...
Jon Garelick in The Boston Phoenix, 20 June 2004
In the late ’90s, after publishing three well-received novels, Alain de Botton began writing book-length non-fiction essays on a variety of topics. To How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, and The Art of Travel he’s now added Status Anxiety. More...
Michael Upchurch in The Seattle Times, 20 June 2004
Over the past seven years, British writer Alain de Botton has cunningly latched onto our eagerness to improve or understand ourselves, and redirected our bromide-susceptible self-help energies back toward the classics. More...
Ian Wedde in NZ Listener, 19 June 2004
Alain de Botton is wildly successful – seven books and two (coming up three) BBC television programmes (and a new baby expected) by the age of 35. We met in the posh luncheon environs of the Boulcott St Bistro in Wellington. These didn't offend his modest Epicurean instincts. More...
San Francisco Chronicle, 13th June 2004
If we are what we drive, the SUV has a lot to say about us. A dangerous behemoth that is a far greater threat to the environment than other automobiles, it's also a four-wheeled middle finger to those around it, a rolling fortress that boasts of its gleaming enormousness and begs for our jaws to drop in awe. More...
John Freeman in The Boston Globe, 6th June 2004
America is the richest country in the history of mankind. In contrast to the developing world, a vast majority of our citizens have televisions and telephones, roofs over our heads, and toilets that flush. Food is fresh and plentiful, water abundant, and we pay a fraction of what Europeans do for gasoline. More...
David Gilmour in The Globe and Mail, 5th June 2004
There's something depressing about a Paul McCartney world tour
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