Anna Shechtman is an assistant professor of literature at Cornell, an editor-at-large at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the author of “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History ...
This past December, I threw a party to celebrate a major milestone in my life: the 1,000th day of my New York Times crossword-solving streak. My friends, none of them fellow cruciverbalists, poured in ...