puzzles

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

Understanding puzzles as agents of disorder runs counter to a common interpretation that associates puzzles with the quest for order.

Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers condemned them as a dangerous menace to society.

Crossword puzzles may be a recent invention, but since we've had language we've played games with words.

The newspaper standby still rivets our attention a century later.

Poe’s story of a treasure hunt, revealing the fantastical writer’s hyper-rational penchant for cracking codes.

Glenn Fleishman’s history of the comic strip as a technological artifact vividly restores the world of newspaper printing—gamboge, Zip-A-Tone, flongs, and all.

The Quaker spiritual journey, often invisible due to its silent, humble and individual nature, is illustrated in this map.