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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
Joshua Hammer: “I’ve never been in this kind of hot zone before”

Joshua Hammer: “I’ve never been in this kind of hot zone before”

Joshua Hammer started his foreign correspondent’s life as a rotating bureau chief for Newsweek from 1992 to 2006. He’s now a contributing editor to Smithsonian and Outside magazines, and contributes…
February 10, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Elizabeth Weil and "What Really Happened to Baby Johan?"

Annotation Tuesday! Elizabeth Weil and “What Really Happened to Baby Johan?”

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…
February 9, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Teju Cole on “Far Away From Here”

Annotation Tuesday! Teju Cole on “Far Away From Here”

The novelist/essayist/photographer on how he blended his diverse interests and influences into a compelling essay on his own photography
February 2, 2016
Notable Narrative: Ken Armstrong, T. Christian Miller and "An Unbelievable Story of Rape"

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

Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller found themselves in the odd position of moving from competitors to collaborators, over the course of a phone call or two and a few…
January 26, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Emily Yoffe and "The College Rape Overcorrection"

Annotation Tuesday! Emily Yoffe and “The College Rape Overcorrection”

Emily YoffeWhen Emily Yoffe started looking into the issue of young men being expelled from colleges over alleged sexual assaults, she had in mind writing a “cheeky” 2,500-word story telling them what…
January 26, 2016
The 5 Most Read "Why's This So Good?" Essays

The 5 Most Read “Why’s This So Good?” Essays

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…
January 20, 2016
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…
January 20, 2016
Jake Silverstein: "Immersing you in worlds not your own"

Jake Silverstein: “Immersing you in worlds not your own”

Jake Silverstein started editing the New York Times Magazine in May 2014, after six years editing Texas Monthly. During Silverstein’s tenure as editor, then editor-in-chief at Texas Monthly,the magazine was a…
January 19, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Anthony Ronzio of the Bangor Daily News on "The Good Life"

Annotation Tuesday! Anthony Ronzio of the Bangor Daily News on “The Good Life”

Anthony Ronzio (Credit: Gabor Degre | BDN)Over the past two years the Bangor Daily News, a small-town newspaper in central Maine, has made a name for itself by publishing ambitious…
January 12, 2016