Adrienne Raphel

Education

Ph.D., English Literature, Harvard University Cambridge United States

M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Iowa Iowa City United States

B.A., English Literature; Creative Writing, Princeton University Princeton United States

Artistic and Creative Activities

Raphel, A. (2025). Why New Yorkers Yearn for Barneys.

Raphel, A. (2025). Arts Funding in Peril.

Raphel, A. (2025). The Gutting of the IWP.

Raphel, A. (2025). Toll.

Raphel, A. (2025). Five Real Estate Fables.

Raphel, A. (2024). The Life and Times of the Paris Metro.

Raphel, A. (2024). The ABCs of Gardening.

Raphel, A. (2024). How Gen Z Made Crosswords Their Own.

Raphel, A. (2024). Cultural Clues Crossword. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Raphel, A. (2024). "Issue No. 250: A Crossword".

Raphel, A. (2024). How Ruth Krauss Made a New Kind of Children's Literature.

Raphel, A. (2024). How Crossword Creators Make Our Favorite Word Games.

Raphel, A. (2024). Atlas Obscura's Ultimate Word Game Tournament.

Raphel, A. (2024). From Family Game to Cult Film to ‘Thirst Trap,’ Clue Has Been Through It.

Raphel, A. (2024). How the Pandemic Brought Cheating to the World of Competitive Bridge.

Raphel, A. (2024). The Hidden Worlds of Monopoly.

Raphel, A. (2024). Two Poems: Jupiter, Neptune, Minerva, and Momus; The Travelers and the Sea.

Raphel, A. (2024). Book review of The Karman Line by Daisy Atterbury.

Raphel, A. (2024). Sunday Morning.

Raphel, A. (2024). Two poems from Real Estate Fables.

Raphel, A. (2023). Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue. For Poets in Love, Only Couplets Will Do..

Raphel, A. (2023). "The Dead Silence of Goods": Annie Ernaux and the Superstore.

Raphel, A. (2023). Nightmares of a Shopaholic.

Raphel, A. (2022). Shopping Diary.

Raphel, A. (2022). Felix by Proxy.

Raphel, A. (2022). Barneys Fantasia.

Raphel, A. (2021). Real Estate: More Fables.

Raphel, A. (2021). The Fourth Rhyme: On Stephen Sondheim.

Raphel, A. (2021). Real Estate Fables.

Raphel, A. (2020). A Brief History of Word Games.

Raphel, A., & Bates, G. (2019). Imogen and the Beginning of Color.

Raphel, A. Morrison's Infinity Knots: Sites of Memory at Princeton.

Books

Raphel, A. (2022). Our Dark Academia. (p. 138). Iowa City, IA, Rescue Press.

Raphel, A. (2020). Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them. (p. 304). New York, NY, Penguin Press.

Raphel, A. (2017). What Was It For. (p. 116). Iowa City, IA, Rescue Press.

Conference Proceedings

Raphel, A. (2024). The Art of Crosswords.

Raphel, A. (2024). Dreamy with a Side of Danger: Dark Academia in the Classroom.

Media Contributions

Raphel, A. The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. A Lexicographer’s Memoir of Merriam-Webster in the Internet Age, (The New Yorker ).

Raphel, A. Losing Count, (2015--04-16).

Raphel, A. The Font of Poetry, the Poetry of Font, (2015-08-03).

Raphel, A. Why Fast-Food Chains Love (And Deny) Having Secret Menus, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. Why Adults Are Buying Coloring Books (for Themselves), (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2025). "Know Any Good Gossip?", (February 11, 2025).

Raphel, A. (2025). "Moomins Enter the Cuteness Pantheon, With Help from Gen-Z", (July 28, 2025).

Raphel, A. (2024). Through a Grid, Darkly: On Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx”, (Los Angeles Review of Books).

Raphel, A. (2024). "Dating App Fatigue? In Vermont, Personal Ads Still Thrive.", (November 25, 2024).

Raphel, A. (2022). The Gloriously Earthy Stink of Katherine Dunn’s Fiction, (2022-11-01).

Raphel, A. (2021). What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That's What!, (2021-09-09).

Raphel, A. (2020). Ramona Forever, (2020-09-24).

Raphel, A. (2020). The Paris Review Crossword, (2020-03-11).

Raphel, A. (2020). The Paris Review's Poetry Crossword, (2020-04-09).

Raphel, A. (2019). How Crosswords Put Your Brain Into Hyperdrive, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2016). Inside the Venture-Capital Arm of "Sesame Street", (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2016). Curious George Learns About Brand Recognition, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2016). The Marianne Moore Revival, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2015). A History of Punctuation for the Internet Age, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2015). Bento Boxes and the Grade-School Power Lunch, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2015). The Work-College Revival, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2014). TaskRabbit Redux, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2014). The Limits of Reading Rainbow, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2014). What Happened to the Harlequin Romance?, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2014). Competition for McDonald's, And For Ronald, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2014). The Virtual Moleskine, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2014). Branding Arthur Chu, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2014). The Man Who Built Catan, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2013). What Happened to Atlantic City?, (The New Yorker).

Raphel, A. (2013). Our Dolls, Ourselves?, (The New Yorker).

College