The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton

The News: A User's Manual by Alain de BottonThe 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 (author of the best selling The Architecture of Happiness), 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

Sashin Joshi and Radhesh Pant

an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block

Birthday Girl is a beguiling

tries to gain control

Ramesh exposes the sense of personal doership as the root cause of all suffering

he suffers a collapse that renders him unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to

When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event

he can have one extra day of life

artificial intelligence and biometrics

and at times uncompromising way of an enlightened woman mystic

Jamal and Hanna

Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make