Odin's Ravens

I am particularly fascinated by the revulsion with which many readers of the New Yorker greeted Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lotter...

Illustration by Anita Stevens Rundles Americans all seem to want to win the lottery, even though the idea is a ludicrous waste of time ...

By Dan Hagen Reread the domestic humor of writers like Shirley Jackson, Jean Kerr and Erma Bombeck a half-century later, and ...