One part of the movie focuses explicitly on a Jewish character. Another features a protagonist based on a Jewish protest leader, while Jewish writers from The New Yorker provide inspiration, too.
“The Lottery” might be the most famous American short story. Written by Shirley Jackson and published in the New Yorker in 1948, it tells of an unnamed American town where, once a year, residents draw slips of paper from a black box, choosing one person to be murdered by the rest of the village. Jackson, whose writing wrestles […]