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Anna Shechtman

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"Native Son" and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright

Novelist Richard Wright yearned to break into film, but Hollywood's censorship of black stories left his aspirations unfulfilled.

by Anna Shechtman via The New Yorker on April 4, 2019

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

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Book cover of: 'Through a Grid, Darkly: On Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx,”' in red lettering

Through a Grid, Darkly

The feminist history of the crossword puzzle: some of the form's early champions were women working for little to no pay.

by Adrienne Raphel via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 14, 2024

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