Anna Shechtman

New York

Editor-at-Large at Los Angeles Review of Books

English Lit @cornell — Editor-at-Large @lareviewofbooks — Cruciverbalist @newyorker

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The Crossword: Monday, April 28, 2025

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Anna Shechtman

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The Crossword: Monday, April 7, 2025

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Anna Shechtman

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The Crossword: Monday, February 3, 2025

Feb 3, 2025 | newyorker.com | Anna Shechtman

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Sympathy for the Troll | Anna Shechtman

Jan 26, 2025 | nybooks.com | Anna Shechtman

During the Q&A after the US premiere of Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me, last fall at the New York Film Festival, someone asked about his interest in shit. The provocation was not altogether inappropriate: Carax’s forty-two-minute essay film begins, after all, with Monsieur Merde, a recurring character in three of his last four major films.
The Holiday Crossword: Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Dec 23, 2024 | newyorker.com | Anna Shechtman

Bored GameTraverse the morass of traffic, the sea of awkwardness, and the soup course to win the game.
The Crossword: Monday, November 25, 2024

Nov 24, 2024 | newyorker.com | Anna Shechtman

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Anora’s Honor | Anna Shechtman and D. A. Miller

Nov 1, 2024 | nybooks.com | D. A. Miller |Anna Shechtman

To the educated middle-class viewer of Sean Baker’s Anora, the term “sex worker” will seem the proper and indeed the only usable one for the titular protagonist’s occupation. Any other would be dated or worse. Yet the term is unknown to the streetwise characters in the film, set in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, not that long ago. In this world, Anora (Mikey Madison) is variously called a whore, prostitute, shlyukha, hooker, escort, ho, and so on.
The Crossword: Monday, October 28, 2024

Oct 27, 2024 | newyorker.com | Anna Shechtman

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Review | ‘Linguaphile’ explores why we delight in words and meaning-making

Oct 18, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Anna Shechtman

Review by Anna ShechtmanOctober 18, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDTIt’s a nice word, “Linguaphile.” Watch it trace the outline of its love-object down to the root — Latin; hear it tip between registers scholarly and sensual, reinscribing a heady sentiment in the body of its speaker — her tongue.
The Crossword: Monday, August 19, 2024

Aug 18, 2024 | newyorker.com | Anna Shechtman

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