Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn, by Ken Auletta
If president-elect Donald Trump learned anything from his mentor Roy Cohn, it was this: punch first and never apologize. Cohn was notorious...
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Esquire Classic Podcast
A timely and revealing update of some of the most groundbreaking narrative journalism ever published by Esquire since its founding in 1933. Presented by PRX and Esquire Magazine.
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20 of 44 episodesThe Plane at the Bottom of the Ocean, by Bucky McMahon
The question is astonishingly simple: In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all the time, how does a...
The Price of Being President, by Richard Ben Cramer
Published in 1992, Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes: The Way to the White House remains the richest and most unvarnished account of the pe...
The Old Man and the River, by Pete Dexter
Norman Maclean published A River Runs Through It when he was seventy-three, and only after his children implored him to write down the stori...
The Days of Wine and Pig Hocks, by Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison, the novelist and poet who died earlier this year at the age of 78, had a gargantuan, fearless appetite that would make both A....
Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case! by Garry Wills
12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley discusses Garry Wills’s 1968 profile, “Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case!”
Love in the Time of Magic, by E. Jean Carroll
A chronicle of risk and romance on the sidelines of the NBA
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, by Tom Wolfe
A meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce and Tom Wolfe.
The House That Thurman Munson Built, by Michael Paterniti
Trust me, he said, and the last great brawling sports team in America did. Twenty years after Thurman Munson’s death, Reggie, Catfish, Goose...
The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up," a series of essays from 1936 about his alcoholism and mental breakdown, set off a genre of confessiona...
The Brain That Changed Everything, by Luke Dittrich
When a surgeon cut into Henry Molaison’s skull to treat him for epilepsy, he inadvertently created the most important brain-research subject...
“I, Stalkerazzi” and “Angelina Jolie and the Torture of Fame,” by John H. Richardson
John H. Richardson on our cultural infatuation with celebrity and the humanity that lurks on both sides of the camera lens.
Nureyev Dancing In His Own Shadow, by Elizabeth Kaye
At the end of a glorious career, the defiant legend takes refuge in his most cherished partner—himself.
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, by Gay Talese
And some of the most important people in some of the most important places in New York, New Jersey, Southern California and Las Vegas are su...
Styron’s Choices, by Philip Caputo
The artist’s life demands solitude, sensitivity, and often a little something to get him through the night. The very same things can destroy...
The Falling Man, by Tom Junod
Do you remember this photograph?
The American Male at Age Ten, by Susan Orlean
What it feels like to be a boy in America.
My Father, the Bachelor, by Martha Sherrill
He was a beautiful man, and someone had to liberate these women from their marriages. When he died, women grieved. Lots and lots of women.
A Few Words About Breasts, by Nora Ephron
Shaping Up absurd.
Edwin Moses, by Mark Kram
A Hurdler in Inner Space.