Literature

Press office: one lie can sometimes hide another

By Quentin Perissinotto · December 18, 2022

Book reviewing is a time-consuming activity, but above all it requires a good back. After all, with all those stacks of books to receive, there's always the risk of contractures! However, before the novels arrive in their envelopes, the publishing houses have to respond to requests...

Society

La Fête des Vendanges, a festival of irony

By Max Moeschler · 24 October 2022

Neuchâtel's legendary Fête des Vendanges, the epitome of local epicureanism, is back after a three-year hiatus.

Literature

La rentrée littéraire: à flots et à mots

By Quentin Perissinotto · October 15, 2022

As the summer turned out to be hotter than ever, August took on an apocalyptic feel: a merciless tsunami...

Society

An imperceptible earthquake

By Le Regard Libre · September 30, 2022

HONEY AND FALSE SEEMING | On Saturday, September 10, shortly before 6.00 pm, an earthquake tickled - apparently - Switzerland. Apparently, because the relatively low amplitude of the quake - 4.3 on the Richter scale - was still strong enough to be felt by some people. But not by our editorial team...

World

Sodomy in Texas?

By Jonas Follonier · September 20, 2022

BRIEF INSOLIT | After the removal of abortion rights from the U.S. Constitution last June, the Texas Attorney General expressed his willingness to reinstate a state law banning sodomy, if the Supreme Court allowed it. What exactly does this mean?