Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis, has died at age 56.
Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery is a 1948 fiction piece anchored by concrete stats (about 300 villagers, ~2-hour lottery, 77-year tradition) that reveals deadly conformity in a small town.
A detailed review of Solvej Balle's planned septology On the Calculation of Volume, praising its minimalist, time-centered prose and the progression across volumes I–V with Volume VI anticipated.