Esquire Classic Podcast

In 1968, just hours after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the future Pulitzer Prize–winning author Garry Wills—... Read more

David Foster Wallace’s unforgettable portrait of tennis player Michael Joyce is as much about the intricate physics of h... Read more

Fifty years after it was first published, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” remains the most influential and talked-about magaz... Read more

In 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald, then a struggling writer battling depression and alcoholism, published “The Crack-Up,” a r... Read more

In 1992, writer Susan Orlean was sick of celebrity profiles. Instead, she wanted to do something bigger and much harder:... Read more

“It was the moment we were waiting for and the moment we dreaded.” So begins “The Death of Patient Zero,” a story that b... Read more

In March 2013, the man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden came forward to tell his story for the first time in “The Sho... Read more

Richard Ben Cramer’s masterful profile of Ted Williams from 1986 is often cited as one of the greatest magazine stories ... Read more

We will all get old one day. Mike Sager’s astonishingly intimate portrait of Glenn Sandberg, age ninety-two, is about wh... Read more

For two decades, the Four Seasons was the epicenter of culture in America. Jackie Onassis, Henry Kissinger, and Nora Eph... Read more

In Raymond Carver’s masterful short stories, what goes unspoken between characters—what can’t or won’t be articulated—ca... Read more

It was a meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce, who, in inventing the integrated computer chip and founding Inte... Read more

Published in 1992, Richard Ben Cramer’s book What It Takes remains the richest and most detailed account of the personal... Read more

In 2001, director Michael Bay was one of Hollywood’s most successful commercial filmmakers when he took on the daunting ... Read more

Before anyone foresaw a time when a television celebrity could become president—hello, Cleveland—Norman Mailer wrote in ... Read more

It’s hard to think of a profession more maligned than the paparazzi, but in 1998 Esquire writer at large John H. Richard... Read more

Martha Sherrill’s father, Peter, rakish and handsome, was an irrepressible charmer and natural raconteur; when he died, ... Read more

Between 1977 and 1987, Edwin Moses won 122 consecutive races in the men’s 400-meter hurdles—including his second Olympic... Read more

When journalist Philip Caputo set out to profile William Styron in 1985, it was something of a dream assignment: Styron,... Read more

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September... Read more