Policy

Should under-16s be banned from social networking sites?

By Pablo Sánchez · August 13, 2025

Social networks play an important role in the lives of teenagers. Faced with the risks of addiction and exposure to extreme content, the question of an age limit for accessing platforms is becoming increasingly important.

Literature

It's for their own good

By Diana-Alice Ramsauer · 21 February 2024

What does it mean to want the «good» of a child at a time of political crisis and loss of ideological bearings? This is one of the underlying questions posed in Nicolas Verdan's new thriller. A thematic journey through the influence of propaganda networks over time.

Films

«Close: where rumors part us

By Fanny Agostino · November 23, 2022

In 2018, Girl won three awards at the Croisette. Flemish director Lukas Dhont's new film continues his contemplation of teenage upheavals. This time, through the prism of other people's eyes. Close, the head-on collision of childhood and the world.

Literature

«Villa royale»: the sparklingly talented first novel by a woman from Lausanne

By Quentin Perissinotto · 05 February 2022

Unpublished article - Quentin Perissinotto Villa royale marks the literary debut of a young author from Lausanne. And the mark of a strong...

Literature

Leaving fragments of yourself behind

By Diana-Alice Ramsauer · June 29, 2021

A great summer book

Literature

Being born and being a «Girl», according to Camille Laurens

By Lauriane Pipoz · March 30, 2021

Les bouquins du mardi - Lauriane Pipoz In her latest novel, Camille Laurens explores the gap between being born a woman and being...

Literature

«The rain before it falls»: determinism according to Jonathan Coe

By Lauriane Pipoz · September 15, 2020

An almost philosophical tale

Films

«Pinocchio»: the beauty of an entry into repetition

By Giovanni Ryffel · August 28, 2020

Le Regard Libre N° 65 - Giovanni F. Ryffel (letters to the editor) Matteo Garrone's film Pinocchio is about...

Films

A «Pinocchio» in continuity, but a failure

By Loris S. Musumeci · 08 July 2020

Fable returns with Garrone and Benigni