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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.
If president-elect Donald Trump learned anything from his mentor Roy Cohn, it was this: punch first and never apologize. Cohn was notorious...
The question is astonishingly simple: In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all the time, how does a...
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...
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...
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....
12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley discusses Garry Wills’s 1968 profile, “Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case!”
A chronicle of risk and romance on the sidelines of the NBA
A meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce and Tom Wolfe.
Trust me, he said, and the last great brawling sports team in America did. Twenty years after Thurman Munson’s death, Reggie, Catfish, Goose...
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...
When a surgeon cut into Henry Molaison’s skull to treat him for epilepsy, he inadvertently created the most important brain-research subject...
John H. Richardson on our cultural infatuation with celebrity and the humanity that lurks on both sides of the camera lens.
At the end of a glorious career, the defiant legend takes refuge in his most cherished partner—himself.
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...
The artist’s life demands solitude, sensitivity, and often a little something to get him through the night. The very same things can destroy...
Do you remember this photograph?
What it feels like to be a boy in America.
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.
Shaping Up absurd.
A Hurdler in Inner Space.
What It Takes is the most comprehensive account ever written about the personal price of running for president.
When he looks back at his father, he sees a dim figure losing its substance to sickness, and when the past is a cipher, there is no redeemin...
It’s convention time, an ideal moment to revisit Norman Mailer's legendary 1960 reported essay, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket,” about J...
The closing of the Four Seasons, home of the “power lunch.”
Do you smell that? That’s another Michael Bay movie burning up the box office. And if that bothers you, if you think he’s just another schlo...
Norman Maclean taught Shakespeare until he was seventy, then wrote a timeless story worthy of the bard himself.
John H. Richardson on our cultural infatuation with celebrity and the humanity that lurks on both sides of the camera lens.
The man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden tells his story for the first time.
In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all the time, how does a massive airplane simply go missing?
The furious saga of Teddy Ballgame.
Boy oh boy oh boy, Sanberg. You’re 92. And you’ve been old longer than you’ve been anything else.
What happens when all of a man’s intelligence and athleticism is focused on placing a fuzzy yellow ball where his opponent is not? An obsess...
What it feels like to be a boy in America.
What It Takes is the most unvarnished account ever written about the personal price of running for president.
How ”The Death of Patient Zero” helped push the boundaries of modern medicine.
A meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce and Tom Wolfe.
12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley discusses Garry Wills’s 1968 profile, “Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case!”
“Oh my God—we hit a little girl.” This was the single, shocking cover line of the October 1966 issue of Esquire. Inside was John Sack’s 33,0...
Joe Nocera's "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" from 1986 remains the most intimate and honest appraisals of the computer visionary ever writ...
Norman Mailer's legendary 1960 reported essay, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket,” about JFK and the Democratic political convention.
Gay Talese joins host David Brancaccio to discuss how "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" came about, the evolution of celebrity, and why his story r...
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...
Jessi Klein, comedian and head writer for "Inside Amy Schumer," discusses Nora Ephron's legendary story about breasts.
“The Falling Man”, Esquire’s most-read story of all time, is discussed by host David Brancaccio and Esquire Writer at Large Tom Junod. The s...