The contingent talent of Emily Sargent
Creativity in proximity to genius without its obligations
Switzerland
Tuesday
Monday
Figures emerge like ghosts from Antonia Showering’s canvases
The hues she’s employed are bodily, yet transcend into a surreal haze
Thursday
How Liberation Day rocked Switzerland
When Trump brandished his made-for-television tariff chart, we were horrified
Can the Mayr diet work at home?
It’s amazing, but when you chew something 60 times, a piece of broccoli starts to taste sumptuous, complex, irresistible
Thursday
Breakfasts, massages and reinvigorating Swiss thermal waters
My father would have loved this new spa life. I’m not sure about my mother. But I did
Wednesday
Biohacking and skiing at the Alpina Gstaad
Can you biohack away your skiing maladies at this Swiss resort and spa?
Sunday
Treachery! Americans rank Britain the world’s best country
Clearly there wasn’t a category for dental hygiene included under public health…
Thursday
Credit Suisse lingers still. Why?
The bank’s fate should have been decisively resolved by the Swiss authorities and its own board last fall
Tuesday
A deluge of deviants in Davos?
Is the World Economic Forum hosting more prostitutes than usual?
Monday
High tea with the Queen in a heavenly palace?
Richard liked to say that I became a royalist because Prince Philip paid special attention to me
Tuesday
A Joycean odyssey
In search of the Irish author’s Swiss resting place
Wednesday
What Richard Scarry did all day
Dick loved a friendly contest with the woke and PC crowd of yore
Wednesday
The Biden-Putin summit was a diplomatic nothingburger
There were no breakthroughs — but at least, by Putin’s account at least, there was ‘no hostility’ between the two sides
