Adrienne Raphel Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them; she teaches in the Princeton Writing Program and lives in Brooklyn.

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Adrienne Raphel

The Lion & the Statue David has fifty-nine apartments for rent and twenty-six lease takeovers to see. Beautiful, sun-drenched, south-facing. Duck light. Private dock, semi-private outdoor space, roof deck, live band. Tortured orchard, koi pond.  The client’s representative drinks tap water from a Fiji bottle.  We can easily represent things as we wish them to be. ** The Ass & His Shadow All the agents have their own listings, but...