New York's Hottest Club Is a Chess Club

Perhaps playing these puzzles and sharing our experiences of them is strangely democratising, particularly when a lot of the content we see online is widely aspirational and unrealistic. These free puzzles are something anyone can do, knowing thousands of others are doing the same.

Even prior to the pandemic, these institutions were shuttering, according to research. As Americans spend more time alone and practice individualized forms of leisure, like marathoning television series on streaming services and passively scrolling on social platforms, they aren’t gathering communally as often as they were in decades past — a shift... See more