At just 16, Natan Last had a crossword puzzle accepted by the New York Times; at the time he was the youngest person ever to ...

Natan Last's book delves into the crossword's century-long story, exploring what the grids we solve reveal about news and ...

Natan Last, a crossword constructor for The New Yorker looks at the puzzle’s history and effect on culture and politics in ...

On April 2, 1935, The Stanford Daily announced its first crossword with great fanfare. “To give students ever more service and pleasure The Daily starts today a series of Crossword Puzzles,” it wrote.

Word games are knotty, paradoxical devices. They offer players the illusion of control: What could be tidier than a Scrabble board, or the orderly grid of a crossword puzzle? But they are possible ...

Capitalism: A Global History comes in at 1,000 pages before the footnotes. Across the Universe explores the past, present and ...