McSorley’s Old Ale House: An article in the Jan. 31 Section A about the literary side of McSorley’s Old Ale House, the oldest bar in New York City, said that Joseph Mitchell had written a New York ...

Any summer weekend in Canada is likely to be accompanied by copious consumption of beer. Hard though it may be to believe, “beer” was a word used rarely outside of poetry till the 1500s, the common ...