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.”
Adrienne Raphel is the author of the books Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them (2020), Our Dark Academia (2022), and What Was It For (2017). She holds a PhD from Harvard and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Raphel teaches at CUNY Baruch and at the Writer’s Foundry MFA program at St. Joseph’s University. She is also on faculty with the Berlin Writers’ Workshop and serves as a mentor with the Periplus Collective.
Adrienne Raphel reviews Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle.”