Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the formation of The New Yorker's popular crossword section, for which she is today a biweekly contributor. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out-of-touch, Anna is widely regarded as a crossword revolutionary, a female prodigy who has come to dominate an overwhelmingly male field, and who steadfastly works to make puzzles...

For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by...