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FUN : Spies, Puzzle Solvers and a Century of Crosswords, Hardback Book

FUN : Spies, Puzzle Solvers and a Century of Crosswords Hardback

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In December 1913, the New York World newspaper published the first crossword in history.

It appeared in their Sunday supplement, “Fun.” A century later, this absorbing puzzle continues to attract (and infuriate) millions of devotees every day.

But the world’s most popular—and seemingly mundane—pastime has a surprising history, filled with intrigue and adventure. Paolo Bacilieri’s FUN transports us from turn-of-the-century New York to present-day Milan, taking in stories of ingenious puzzle makers, ardent solvers, and intellectual luminaries.

Part detective story, part docudrama, and interlaced with a fiction of Bacilieri’s own imagining, FUN questions the crossword’s “harmless” status.

Sure, it’s fun—but could it also be a form of resistance, of cryptic communication, of espionage?

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