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Nicola Twilley

Nicola Twilley, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, is a host of the podcast “Gastropod.” Her books include “ Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.”

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How the World’s Foremost Maze-Maker Leads People Astray
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Nicola Twilley writes about the designer Adrian Fisher, who has devoted the past four decades to bringing back mazes, long regarded as historical curiosities. He has created more than seven hundred—including one on a skyscraper in Dubai and another that’s now reproduced on Britain’s five-pound note.