Hiding an acrostic message in an otherwise ordinary resignation letter isn’t exactly the boldest way to express a political view, yet it’s proven surprisingly effective. It’s a trick that’s been tried ...
An undergraduate at Tufts University discovered a previously unnoticed acrostic in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Per a new paper published in the journal Milton Quarterly, 2018 graduate Miranda Phaal ...
Last Sunday, a disconcerting—puzzling, even--mystery: the New York Times acrostic was nowhere to be found in the weekly magazine. One of the "variety puzzles" which for years have run underneath the ...