The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had ...

Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” which first appeared in The New Yorker in the issue of June 26, 1948, is now so familiar as a cultural touchstone that it can be surprising to ...

Shirley Jackson’s devastating 1948 short story “The Lottery” takes place in what might be a provincial corner of America in which an annual, compulsory lottery lends a degree of adventure… ...

Shirley Jackson’s classic story “The Lottery,” which turned 75 this week ... (the closest is Maureen Stapleton for The Caedmon Short Story Collection). When I first read the story it ...

But the controversy wasn't enough to keep "The Lottery" out of print. Today the tale is remembered as one of the best short stories The New Yorker ever published, and it often appears in ...

call “perhaps the most controversial short story The New Yorker has ever published”: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” Though now a classic, the story—about a small New England village ...

Shirley Jackson says she’s been told that if “The Lottery,” her infamous short story about an atavistic ritual set in a contemporary village, “had been the only story I ever wrote or ...

Shirley Jackson’s classic short story The Lottery, which centers on violence, inhumanity and judgment in a small New England town, is being adapted — for the first time — as a feature film ...

Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” which first appeared in The New Yorker in the issue of June 26, 1948, is now so familiar as a cultural touchstone that it can be surprising to ...