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'There is no recipe, take it or leave it'

1 month ago | vittlesmagazine.com | Jonathan Meades |Rosa Lyster |Ruby Tandoh

This essay is part of our supplement Too Many Cookbooks. To read the rest of the series, please click below:Reinventing the Hexagon, by Jonathan MeadesMachiavelli in the Kitchen, by Rosa Lyster15 Cookbooks That Changed Everything, by Ruby TandohCookbooks in Translation, by Guan Chua, Christie Dietz, Anissa Helou, Ibrahim Hirsi, Saba Imtiaz, TW Lim, Lutivini Majanja, Meher Mirza, Marie Mitchell & Rachel Roddy. I have always been a terrible recipe writer.
Decoding the Art World at Frieze

Oct 11, 2024 | nytimes.com | Rosa Lyster

Every October, one of the world's major art fairs takes place in a huge tent on the edge of Regent's Park. For five days, the park's year-round population - joggers, parents pushing buggies, teenagers playing soccer - is augmented by thousands of people at Frieze London seeking an encounter with contemporary art - or at least an encounter with the contemporary art world, which is just as much of a spectacle, in its way.
The weird, wonderful whimsy of Dennis Severs’ House

Sep 7, 2024 | ft.com | Rosa Lyster

Early one morning in March 1990, two men posing as police officers walked into a museum in Boston, tied up the guards and walked out with...
A Frank Account of an Unequal Art-World Friendship

Aug 14, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rosa Lyster |Rosa Lyster lives

Last July, I got married. In the year since, I have told the story of how I met my husband perhaps a hundred times. It’s not an especially gripping anecdote—we were both at a pub—but, then again, it doesn’t need to be, because the most ordinary circumstances can take on a certain romantic sheen in light of what came next. As much as I love telling it, I sometimes wonder why this particular kind of origin story is indulged, why it is seen to matter so much more than all the others.
Welcome to the London Book Fair, where everyone knows their place

Mar 18, 2024 | ekathimerini.com | Rosa Lyster

Everybody knows that the publishing industry is a rigorously stratified world, characterized by a reverence for hierarchy and a near-fanatical observance of ritual. Or maybe we suspect as much — but for those who would like to have those beliefs starkly confirmed, I would recommend a visit to the London Book Fair, which took place in the city’s Kensington district last week.
Welcome to the London Book Fair, Where Everyone Knows Their Place

Mar 15, 2024 | nytimes.com | Rosa Lyster

If you want to understand the power map of the publishing industry, just look at this event's floor plan. Everybody knows that the publishing industry is a rigorously stratified world, characterized by a reverence for hierarchy and a near-fanatical observance of ritual. Or maybe we suspect as much - but for those who would like to have those beliefs starkly confirmed, I would recommend a visit to the London Book Fair, which took place in the city's Kensington district this week.
The Frenchwoman from Indianapolis

Feb 2, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Rosa Lyster

By Rosa Lyster February 2, 2024 Here is Norman Mailer in his fine black boots, high-cut and shiny and very snug on the ankle, like something you might pick out if you were the prop master for an expensive production of Richard III. Sweating a bit under the TV lights, he seems to be doing an imitation of a scowl, as if to gesture toward his reputation as a guy who goes around scowling.
The BBC’s ‘Planet Earth’ used to be supremely soothing. Now it gives me nightmares

Nov 24, 2023 | ft.com | Rosa Lyster

One thing about being an undergrad was you spent a lot of time hungover on sofas, arguing about what to watch.
Red Flag, Green Light

Nov 8, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Yepoka Yeebo |Rosa Lyster

Everyone loves a con artist. Since her indictment in 2018 for defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup of $700 million, Elizabeth Holmes has been the subject of two books, four documentaries and a hit miniseries. Anna Delvey, who posed as an heiress in order to swindle banks, hotels and benefactors, got out of prison last year and has since launched a podcast and released a single with a TikTok star, all while under house arrest in an East Village apartment.
Looking Past the Gadgets, and Into Spies’ Minds

Oct 26, 2023 | nytimes.com | Rosa Lyster

A tube of lipstick hiding a miniature camera, issued to female K.G.B. spies during the 1970s. A box of matches containing message-writing tools, used by British double agents in World War II. A Russian-designed cassette player with secret compartments for surveillance equipment. A hollow battery in which an MI6 operative could store reels of miniature film.