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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
Uncle Tom’s Cabin jigsaw puzzle.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Jigsaw Puzzle: Jumbling the Pieces of Stowe’s Story

Understanding puzzles as agents of disorder runs counter to a common interpretation that associates puzzles with the quest for order.
by Patricia Jane Roylance via Commonplace on January 31, 2023
Newspaper headline "Crossword mania breaks up homes"

Wordle: The New York Times Hated Crossword Puzzles Before It Embraced Them

Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers condemned them as a dangerous menace to society.
by Louis Anslow via Big Think on February 15, 2022
A European style woman standing in front of a complex crossword puzzle.

A Brief History of Word Games

Crossword puzzles may be a recent invention, but since we've had language we've played games with words.
by Adrienne Raphel via The Paris Review on November 30, 2021
Drawing of people sitting and standing on crossword boxes while attempting to solve the puzzle

How the Crossword Became an American Pastime

The newspaper standby still rivets our attention a century later.
by Deb Amlen via Smithsonian on December 30, 2019
The secret message in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug"

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)

Poe’s story of a treasure hunt, revealing the fantastical writer’s hyper-rational penchant for cracking codes.
via The Public Domain Review on July 18, 2019

“A Very Curious Religious Game”: Spiritual Maps and Material Culture in Early America

The Quaker spiritual journey, often invisible due to its silent, humble and individual nature, is illustrated in this map.
by Janet Moore Lindman via Commonplace on June 7, 2022

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