Joseph Mitchell on how New York State liquor laws transformed Dick’s Bar and Grill, from 1939: “The old place was dirty and it smelled like the zoo, but it was genuine.”
This Week in History
January 1-7
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
86 articles from this week
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A Profile by Robert Rice, from 1958: The young maestro behind “West Side Story” has turned the American musical into a form of high art—and baffled the classical-music world in the process.
Calvin Tomkins profiles the architect, inventor, and visionary.
John Seabrook visits George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch, and reflects on the lasting power—both mythical and commercial—of Star Wars.
Tobias Wolff’s short story about a visit by Robert Frost to a boys’ boarding school full of would-be poets and writers.
Does Whole Foods’ C.E.O. know what’s best for you?