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New in Paperback: ‘Thinking Inside the Box’ and ‘The Mountains Sing’ By Jennifer Krauss March 5, 2021 THINKING INSIDE THE BOX: Adventures With Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them, by Adrienne Raphel. (Penguin, 304 pp., $18.) This affectionate analysis of a cultural fixation that in 1924 The Times dismissively compared to “the temporary madness that made so many people pay enormous prices for mahjong sets” succeeds — our reviewer, Peter Sagal, argued — because “like a good crossword” it challenges us to “back away from our assumptions,” “think differently” and “apply ourselves again.” TYLL, by Daniel Kehlmann. Translated by Ross Benjamin. (Vintage, 352 pp., $16.95.) Our reviewer, Irina Dumitrescu, called this picaresque fable in which the proverbial trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel tightrope-walks above the brutality of 17th-century Europe’s Thirty Years’ War â€

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