Rosa Lyster
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Cape Town, WC, South Africa
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This essay is just Harry Potter for people who think comparing things to Harry Potter is stupid
Or some shit. → Read More
Celebrities Wielding Books: Why Was Julian Assange Holding Gore Vidal’s “History of the National Security State”?
Rosa Lyster on why Julian Assange was holding Gore Vidal’s “History of the National Security State” at the time of his arrest and what other celebrities’ publicly displayed books say about them. → Read More
Listen up bitches, it’s time to learn incorrect things about someone you’ve never heard of
Why do people love yelling about random historical figures online and how do we stop it? → Read More
Goodbye stress, hello duck
In November, a duck and a cow distracted us from everything else going on. → Read More
Do body-language experts actually tell us anything?
An investigation into whether so-called “body-language experts” actually tell us anything. → Read More
The creeping spectre of “white genocide”
The conspiracy theory that was once contained to South Africa is spreading worldwide. → Read More
Coming to Terms with a Life Without Water
For some residents of Cape Town, the memory of the drought is already fading. But, in an increasingly parched world, will the anxiety ever really end? → Read More
Counting Down to Day Zero in Cape Town
Rosa Lyster visits Cape Town and talks with the people there about Day Zero, the date on which the drought-stricken city’s municipal water will be switched off. → Read More
A Visit to South Africa’s Strange, Astonishing Owl House
Rosa Lyster visits the Owl House, in South Africa’s Karoo desert, a place built by the reclusive artist Helen Martins and converted into an unsettling museum after she died. → Read More
Cape Town Waits for Taps to Run Dry on 'Day Zero'
Once the taps are shut off in the drought-stricken city, water queues and strict rationing will become part of daily life for millions. → Read More
Notes on a New Desert
Cape Town is on track to run out of water, and official city communication has been anything but exemplary—a fact that could doom the ruling political party. → Read More
25 Years of Wayne’s World
Wayne’s World was my Rosetta Stone for American popular culture. → Read More
The rise and fall of South Africa’s far right
What South Africa’s white supremacists can tell us about America’s. → Read More
The steampunk aesthetic is ruining my life
The aesthetic is ruining my life. → Read More
Astrology Is Fake, But Libras Are Having A Tough Time
They have been working forever on that air of calm and occasionally unreadable composure. → Read More
Smokers are the last nice people online
Taking a cigarette break on the smoking internet. → Read More
Astrology is Fake But We Need Virgos To Help Us
They stare at you with their clean eyes and they know. → Read More
After the statues fall
What the U.S. can learn from South Africa when it comes to symbols of racism. → Read More
On The Fashion Crimes Of The Ocean’s Eleven Series
Below, a conversation between two adult men. Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan in Ocean’s Twelve: Stop. Matt Damon as Linus Caldwell in same: But. Brad Pitt:… Matt Damon: The coat is for a woman. Brad Pitt: Be quiet. Matt Damon: It is a ladies’ coat, and it is white and it has a million buckles. Your co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones is seen wearing one later, in a scene which confirms both that the coat has… → Read More
Astrology Is Fake, But Leos Are Famous –
Leos are famous. I don’t mean that Leos are disproportionately represented in the entertainment industry, although they are. I mean that they are famous as a concept. If you went up to someone who… → Read More