Notable Narratives

Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

Shane Bauer is no stranger to prisons. In 2009, when he was a freelance journalist living in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iranian border guards arrested him and two others when they accidentally…
July 21, 2016
Davis Harper
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…
May 6, 2016
Alex Belth

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…
March 2, 2016
Alex Belth

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.…
February 24, 2016
Alex Belth
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…
February 16, 2016
Alex Belth

From Esquire Classic: Looking at John Sack’s “M”

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…
January 28, 2016
Aleszu Bajak

Notable Narrative: Ken Armstrong, T. Christian Miller and “An Unbelievable Story of Rape”

Two reporters working for different organizations combined to create a better story
January 26, 2016
Michael Fitzgerald
"My Travels with the Curse of Maracaña"

“My Travels with the Curse of Maracaña”

If Amy O’Leary describes a piece as “crazy fantastic digital storytelling” —— you can bet it’s true. And so it is, with “My Travels with the Curse of Maracaña,” a 2014 “World Cup…
June 6, 2014
Paige Williams

Two writers, one tough subject

Two notable narratives for your consideration this week, both on the loss of a loved one, to cancer:In “The Day I Started Lying to Ruth,” a long reported essay in New…
May 16, 2014
Paige Williams
Notable Narrative: David Abel and the Richard family, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing

Notable Narrative: David Abel and the Richard family, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing

Our latest Notable Narrative, "For Richard family, loss and love," is a two-part series by David Abel* of the Boston Globe. Abel spent six months with the Richards, a family of…
April 17, 2014
Paige Williams