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.”
Charlee Dyroff reviews Gina Chung’s “Green Frog.”
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Adam Phillips’s “On Giving Up.”
Greg Barnhisel reviews Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading.”
Leah Abrams reviews Alexandra Tanner’s “Worry.”
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...
Jason Thornberry reviews Sarah Tomlinson’s “The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers.”
Christopher Newfield reviews Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction.”
Katherine Voyles reviews David McCloskey’s “Moscow X.”
Hannah Kofman reviews Helen Oyeyemi's “Parasol Against the Axe.”
Meena Venkataramanan reviews two novels imagining the experiences of English literary figures George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham in Southeast Asia...
David Shipko reviews Veer Books’ new anthology “Corroding the Now: Poetry + Science/SF.”
Bailey Trela reviews Wayne Koestenbaum’s “Stubble Archipelago.”
In an essay that takes off from Mitch Troutman’s “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry,” native son Jonah...