The Riddles of the Sphinx - Anna Shechtman

"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 TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The QueenÂ’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creatorÂ’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of womenÂ’s work and feminist protest.The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New... Zobrazit více