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Alex Belth

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Alex Belth is the curator of Esquire Classic. He's also curates great journalism at The Stacks for Gawker and The Daily Beast and has blogged about life in New York City at Bronx Banter since 2002.

From Esquire Classic: Tom Junod on "Missing"

From Esquire Classic: Tom Junod on “Missing”

Tiffany Whitton was last seen on video surveillance footage from a Marietta, Georgia, Walmart one night in September 2013. The video shows the twenty-six-year-old woman intoxicated and shoplifting; with her…
Esquire Classic: Mike Sager's country includes old men

Esquire Classic: Mike Sager’s country includes old men

Back in 1998, magazine writer Mike Sager was best known for his fearless profiles of drug dealers, crackheads, porn stars, and neo-Nazis. But that year Esquire handed him a very…

Esquire Classic: Colum McCann, Bitcoin and the Winklevoss twins

The last time most of us heard of the Winklevoss twins—hell, the first time we heard of them—was in David Fincher’s acerbic 2010 movie, The Social Network. You remember: Tyler…

Esquire Classic: Elizabeth Kaye and great profile writing

Esquire has long been fascinated by men in power—and by the frailties and anxieties that lie just beneath their polished facades. Beginning in the late eighties, contributing editor Elizabeth Kaye…

From Esquire Classic: “Love in the Time of Magic”

Mid February marked the anniversary of Magic Johnson’s 1992 return to the NBA after having retired the previous fall, when he announced he was HIV positive. He turned in a…

Esquire Classic: Mark Warren on the odyssey of Stephanie Lee, “Patient Zero”

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005, Esquire executive editor Mark Warren and writer at large Tom Junod drove to Mississippi to visit the displaced families of…

Esquire Classic: Mark Zwonitzer on the making of “What It Takes”

“What It Takes,” Richard Ben Cramer’s exhaustive account of the 1988 presidential election, took so long to report and write—six years in all—that it wasn’t published until the 1992 election.…
From Esquire Classic: Bill Zehme and Johnny Carson's last interview ever

From Esquire Classic: Bill Zehme and Johnny Carson’s last interview ever

Esquire marked Trevor Noah’s transition to hosting “The Daily Show” by putting him on the cover of its March 2016 issue (see “Trevor Noah…Is Not Like You”). Noah has to step…
From Esquire Classic: Gay Talese on Profiling Boxer Floyd Patterson

From Esquire Classic: Gay Talese on Profiling Boxer Floyd Patterson

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…
From Esquire Classic: Tom Junod on Profiling Hillary Clinton

From Esquire Classic: Tom Junod on Profiling Hillary Clinton

Tom JunodHillary Clinton has changed greatly over the past twenty-five years of public service, as First Lady, then Senator, then Secretary of State, and now presidential front-runner. No one has…