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Lydia did not vacuum the floors or dust the overloaded bookshelves when the men started returning three years later, in small groups of fifty or five hundred at first. She did not stoop below her daughter’s small white desk, now the centerpiece of the family room, to gather up the tiny construction-paper piles that had …

Fiction Editor Michael Griffith: Natan Last’s Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle, just out from Pantheon, is a brilliant, exuberant, witty book that hopscotches from the initial crossword craze of the 1920s to the present. Along the way Last profiles innovators, traces the puzzle’s complicated evolution, explores the ways …