The Riddles of the Sphinx NEW Reluctantly

Reluctantly

and emotional depth

despite her instincts

Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies

The Riddles of the Sphinx NEW ReluctantlyBy: Anna Shechtman Combining the soul baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queens Gambit, a renowned puzzle creators compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of womens work and feminist protest. The indisputable queen of crosswords, Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the The New Yorkers popular crossword