Shirley Jackson
Double Take
Sunday Reading: The Mind of Shirley Jackson
From the magazine’s archive: a selection of stories by and essays about the renowned author.
Double Take
Sunday Reading: Eerie Storytelling
From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces on visionaries of horror.
The Front Row
“Shirley,” Reviewed: Josephine Decker’s Furious Melodrama of Shirley Jackson’s Life and Art
Decker elicits impulsive, even reckless performances from Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg that capture the dangerous power of thought in action.
The Current Cinema
“Shirley” Takes a One-Sided View of Its Subject
The film coats the author Shirley Jackson in gothic excess as if glazing a ham, and of her humor scarcely a shred remains.
On Television
Netflix’s Soul-Dead Version of “The Haunting of Hill House”
The adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s funny-nasty psychological thriller abandons the pungent feminine anxiety that made the book so original.
Double Take
Sunday Reading: Shirley Jackson’s Spooky Stories
In honor of Halloween, three stories by Shirley Jackson, from The New Yorker’s archive.
Shouts & Murmurs
“The Lottery” in Stars Hollow
Books
The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson
A new biography explores one of the twentieth century’s most tortured writers.
Page-Turner
On Fans and Fan Mail
People in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.
Page-Turner
This Week in Fiction: Shirley Jackson
Page-Turner
This Week in Fiction: Shirley Jackson
Page-Turner
“The Lottery” Letters
A torrent of mail arrived at The New Yorker in the wake of Shirley Jackson’s short story—the most the magazine had ever received in response to a work of fiction.
Double Take
Takes: The Reaping, 1948
Page-Turner
Solstice in the City
In the Stacks