Through a Grid, Darkly: On Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx”
Adrienne Raphel reviews Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle.”
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Adrienne Raphel reviews Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle.”
Courtney Tenz reviews Anna Gazmarian’s “Devout: A Memoir of Doubt.”
Herb Randall reviews Inna Faliks’s “Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.”
LARB presents an excerpt from Alexandra Tanner’s new novel “Worry.”
In Joe Roman’s “Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World,” Ferris Jabr finds a compelling account of important scientific insights.
ISRAEL'S RECENT MILITARY ASSAULT on Gaza serves as a reminder of the continuing urgency of the Palestinian question, which has been a topic of...
Ali Rıza Taşkale analyzes the way Jonas Eika’s short story collection “After the Sun” critiques speculative finance and offers new ways to imagine...
T. M. Brown reviews Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed...
Adrienne Raphel reviews Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle.”
Josh Billings reviews Bulgarian author Vera Mutafchieva’s historical novel “The Case of Cem.”
Brad East reviews Marilynne Robinson’s “Reading Genesis.”
Matthew Ritchie reviews Sly Stone’s “Thank Ya (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).”
Paul Thompson considers Chris Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and the atomic bomb on-screen.
Eskor David Johnson reviews Cord Jefferson’s film “American Fiction.”