As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.

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… ...

In high school, many of us read Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery.” The piece, published first in a 1948 edition of New Yorker, is about a small, rural community that comes together ...