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Elizabeth Weil had never written about criminal justice, but when asked to write about a controversial case of whether a baby was killed by his father, she produced the gripping “What…

The novelist/essayist/photographer on how he blended his diverse interests and influences into a compelling essay on his own photography

John Sack is an integral part of Esquire lore. This was the guy who sneaked aboard an American landing ship during the Korean War to interview Chinese POWs; the guy…

Two reporters working for different organizations combined to create a better story

How to spark strong emotions in a story with lots of numbers and no central character

We just posted our 100th “Why’s This So Good?,” Abeer Najjar’s look at the Susan Dominus story in the New York Times Magazine, “Hana.” Nearly twice a month since June…

To help celebrate Floyd Patterson’s birthday, let’s turn for a moment to Esquire Hall of Famer Gay Talese, who called Patterson a “writer’s dream.”Esquire Classic: You wrote more than thirty stories…

A good story transports its audience to the scene of the action. The classics of narrative nonfiction are memorable because they find the words that put the reader in the…

Refugee children usually appear in the news media because they’ve died in a shocking accident, or they’re seen as a threat to the social order or the security of a…

New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein on telling stories with virtual reality