It is always with a tinge of sadness that I write aboutMorris Markey, who from the start wrote for virtually every department atTheNew Yorkerand was best known for his “A Reporter at Large” feature. According to his obituary inThe New York Times, Markey won his greatest recognition for t...
While the dominance of white constructors has been a constant throughout the US crossword’s history (the first New York Times crossword constructed by a Black man appeared in 1996, and the first one to carry a Black woman’s byline was published as recently as 2021), the current dominan...
And back to the June 2, 1928 issue, we find this ad for Rolls Royce that offered a vision of a future airliner—in the year 1948. Since the artist had no clue what the future would hold, he conjured up this contraption that looked like a streamlined Noah’s Ark attached to a huge ...
introduced this clue to the New York Times crossword puzzle in 2014, readers took notice. “Bro” was traditionally clued as “sibling for sis”. Ms Shechtman was modernising the puzzle and capturing the zeitgeist.
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But I’m feeling more and more out of it. I’m doing videos on TikTok and Snapchat, but when my students talk about Ariana Grande or Selena Gomez or Jared Leto, I don’t have a clue whom they’re talking about (and frankly, don’t care). And I find myself using words —“...
with Bethany and Christina. Meanwhile, Tess meets with Christina to pick up her book, and Christina shows her a copy of the first crossword puzzle, the word-cross created by Arthur Wynne. It looks like a pristine page copy of the actual printing ofThe New York Worldfrom December 21, ...
Lola is a hip, modern New Yorker. She’s an editor, now in her early 30’s. She’s had her string of boyfriends and lovers but is currently living a boyfriend whom she will be marrying soon. On one particular night out with some friends Lola steps away from the gathering to pick ...
were put in place by women like Ruth Hale, the founding president of the Amateur Cross Word Puzzle League of America, Helen Haven, who organized the first competitive crossword-solving contest in 1924, and Margaret Farrar, who became the first editor of the New York Times crossword in 1942...
…and New Yorkers were getting ready to celebrate a New Year without Prohibition, and pop some “good news” with Cook’s American “champagne”… …an “old friend,” Johnnie Walker, strode into the advertising pages of theNew Yorkerfor the very first time… ...