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The Riddles of the Sphinx

Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
  • Anna Shechtman
2024
Blackstone Publishing

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Associated Ideas

  • feminism
  • puzzles
  • sexism

Associated People

  • Anna Shechtman
  • Margaret Farrar

Featured Excerpts

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

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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