 Fiction The Lottery From 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.” By Shirley Jackson |  A Reporter at Large The Harvard Student Who Killed Her Roommate From 1996: A junior premed student took the life of her closest friend, then her own. She left behind a shocked campus, unanswered questions, and her diary. By Melanie Thernstrom | |
 Letter from Beverly Hills The Man Who Spent Forty-two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool From 1993: Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei. By Adam Gopnik |  A Reporter at Large A Prison Therapist Grapples with a Rapist’s Release From 1995: The psychologist Kay Jackson worked with many incarcerated sex offenders. Fearing one patient’s impending homecoming, she agonized over whether to warn the police. By Lawrence Wright | |
 A Reporter at Large Searching for the Cause of a Catastrophic Plane Crash From 1996: On a calm, clear day, USAir Flight 427 suddenly nosedived and smashed into the earth, killing everyone on board. A team of investigators quickly assembled to sift through the rubble. By Jonathan Harr |  Annals of Motherhood Late Motherhood, Premature Baby From 2000: As I tried to become a parent in my late forties, I thought that getting pregnant would be the hard part. An early delivery never occurred to me. By Wendy Wasserstein | |
 A Reporter at Large Hiroshima From 1946: A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died. By John Hersey |  Profiles The Apostate From 2011: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology. By Lawrence Wright | |
 Annals of Gastronomy Don’t Eat Before Reading This From 1999: A New York chef spills some trade secrets. By Anthony Bourdain |  A Critic at Large Marlon Brando’s Method From 2008: How the greatest American actor lost his way. By Claudia Roth Pierpont | |
 Fiction Girl From 1978: “This is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways.” By Jamaica Kincaid |  Annals of Exploration An Accident in Space From 1972: How Apollo 13 got lost on its way to the moon—then made it back. By Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr. | |
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