Soon the men began to gather, surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes. They stood together, away from the pile of stones ...

Jun 25, 2013 · Ruth Franklin on how Shirley Jackson's short story “The Lottery” led to the most mail the magazine had ever received in response to a work ...

Oct 17, 2022 · Predictably, in the absence of legal lotteries, illegal ones flourished—above all, numbers games, which awarded daily prizes for correctly ...

Jul 21, 2020 · A. M. Homes joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Shirley Jackson's short story “The Lottery,” in this 2008 episode of the New Yorker ...

Feb 2, 2015 · The story begins on a beautiful April morning when a man wakes exhausted and returns to sleep in his thirteen-year-old son's trundle bed, ...

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Jul 26, 2013 · The story explores one of her common themes, the gradual realization of no escape, where the horror is that there is no help coming, no way out, ...