Best New Yorker U.S. Journal
U.S. Journal features reporting from across America. These pieces explore American life, communities, and stories beyond the coasts.
10 picks · 1972–2023
Top authors: Calvin Trillin (7), Mark Singer (2), Paige Williams (1)
A culinary festival in a world capital.
Mark Singer on Cooke City, Montana, where “high-marking”—a dangerous snowmobiling sport—is king.
A liberal town’s school system meets the new patriotism.
U.S. JOURNAL: BUFFALO, N.Y., about the custom, unique to Buffalo, of treating the chicken wing as a culinary specialty. The writer intended a short history…
Calvin Trillin on the origins of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, and why the New York neighborhood is particularly suited—in spirit and architecture—to celebrating the holiday.
U.S. JOURNAL: KENTUCKY about barbecued mutton, a unique regional specialty of western Kentucky. With Tom Chaney, a Kentuckian, the writer resolves to seek …
New Glarus, Wis. emphasizes its Swiss heritage in order to draw tourists. The promotion that helped increase the tourist traffic mostly dramatically in the…
Calvin Trillin’s Sunday-morning visits to Russ & Daughters, Tanenbaum’s, and Ben’s Dairy, on the Lower East Side, to buy breakfast ingredients for the perfect bagel with lox and cream cheese.
From 1972: Calvin Trillin writes that there are crawfish (or crayfish, or crawdads) all over the country, but outside of Louisiana they are all but ignored.