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A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page.—New York Times

Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest.

The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, helped to spearhead the The New Yorker’s popular crossword section. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out-of-touch, Anna is one of very few women in the field of puzzle making, where she strives to make the everyday diversion more diverse.

In this fascinating work—part memo

The Riddles of the Sphinx

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    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
    Publication Date: 3/28/2024
    ISBN13: 9780063275478, 978-0063275478
    ISBN10: 0063275473

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page.—New York Times

    Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest.

    The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, helped to spearhead the The New Yorker’s popular crossword section. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out-of-touch, Anna is one of very few women in the field of puzzle making, where she strives to make the everyday diversion more diverse.

    In this fascinating work—part memo

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