Comments: Week of November 17, 2025 Readers sound off on the power issue, which focused on the out-of-power Democrats.

63 1984 Nettie Jones novel, rereleased in April, 2025, which the critic Namwali Serpell described as “far more daring for its time than any of the recent literary trends that have had everyone blushing and gasping and scribbling”

I'm a fan of the New York Times Mini Crossword -- a fun and streamlined companion to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. Typically, the Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) has roughly a dozen clues to work through -- six across ...

Before Spelling Bee, before Wordle and before Connections, there was the crossword. Who invented the first published crossword, and what was it?