This unique book of politically themed crossword puzzles highlights various aspects of radical ideas, history, movements, and practices. Some puzzles are built around a noteworthy quotation, invoke notable thinkers or books, or allude to keywords and concepts. Others use wordplay or grid art to illustrate an important idea or practice. Collectively, they illustrate a range of orientations and activities in contemporary anarchism and left political activism.
For decades, political scientist Leonard Williams has created puzzles for major newspapers that both entertain and educate. Here, he combines his vocation as a professor of anarchist theory and his avocation as a puzzler into a perfect cocktail of diversion and education.