Lifestyle
Esquire US
THE IMMIGRANTS AREN'T THE PROBLEM
People won't stop coming to America. That should be a good thing. But right now our broken system and toxic politics add up to a giant missed opportunity.
5 min |
March 2023
Esquire US
The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea
At 40, I built a catamaran and sailed around the world alone. The storms were wild. The calm seas terrified me the most.
5 min |
March 2023
Esquire US
Please, Help Yourself!
Many of our favorite new products from this year would make fantastic gifts. Whether you purchase them for a loved one or put them in your own pile is up to you.
2 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Fear None
As the World Cup kicks off in Qatar, meet four players at the heart of a young American squad preparing to take on soccer's superpowers. They're part of a generation with more promise than any that has come before. How far can it take them?
8 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Celebrity Skin
Famous guys are clamoring to provide you with moisturizer and toner. But how do you know which ones to trust with your complexion?
2 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Here's to Absent Friends
After losing people I love, the festive season hasn't been the same. But now I'm determined not to grow old or spend the holidays all alone.
6 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Will You Be Seeing Emancipation?
Less than a year after his infamous slap and weak apologies, Will Smith is back in a new Oscar contender. The star hasn't earned his way to redemption. But the movie tells a story that America urgently needs.
5 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Sex, Love & Marriage Behind Bars
Studies support their therapeutic value. Families, reformers, and even some wardens have endorsed them. Yet conjugal visits have been banished from most U.S. Prisons. John J. Lennon takes esquire inside one of the last bastions of prisoner intimacy in America: the trailers of New York.
10+ min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Can Joe Biden Save America's Soul?
The president has made historic strides in the face of Republican intransigence, but the real test may be how he grapples with the nation's inner demons
6 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
The Strokes – A Nostalgia Tour That Never Ends
The new documentary Meet Me in the Bathroom, about the rise of The Strokes and the early 2000s New York rock scene, amps up music's backward-looking momentum
2 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Winston Duke – Super Hero
Just a handful of scenes in 2018's Black Panther made Winston Duke an overnight celebrity. Now he's back with a bigger role in the muchhyped sequel, Wakanda Forever, and unlocking new powers as an artist. But as the cerebral star prepares for a new level of fame, he's mourning the loss of his closest confidante his mother, Mama Coco and searching for deeper meaning in every aspect of his life.
10+ min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Pile it on
Vest, sweater, pants, and hat by DSquared2; Mission to Pluto watch ($260) by Omega x Swatch.
1 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
What I've learned - Rob Delaney
THEY TALK ABOUT HOW WE MISS PEOPLE
3 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Murder & Loathing in Las Vegas
The employees of the deeply dysfunctional Clark County public administrator's office were at odds over their ambitious boss, Robert Telles. Then Vegas's biggest newspaper published an exposé on his chaotic leadership, the investigative reporter behind the story turned up dead-and Telles was charged with his murder. Now his staff is left wondering: How did it come to this?
10+ min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
This T-Shirt Is a Time Machine
Stylist Bill Mullen travels back to '70s New York to hang with Warhol and Blondie, all thanks to a tee he found in L.A. in the '90s
2 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Italian Charm
Jewelry designer Emanuele Bicocchi serves up universally wearable pieces from his Tuscany workshop
1 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
CAN KICK IT?
Hublot’s latest soccer-friendly Big Bang connected watch is just in time for the World Cup
1 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Seeing the Tie with Fresh Eyes
When knotting up in the morning is the exception, not the norm, your neckwear can be the difference between bland and badass
1 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Right Angles
Appearing like an eight-bit fever dream out of nowhere, the all-electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 has a refreshingly retro-futuristic design that will make you wonder why all everyman cars can't be this cool
3 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Mr.Bubbles
It's time to make Champagne a bigger part of your drinking life
2 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Farewell, 2022, You Were Annoying
Highlights from the year in which righteous anger gave way to Meta Rage
4 min |
Winter 2023
Esquire US
Mike Conner Vs. the Pain
In 2013, a fire-sprinkler engineer fell five stories from the rafters of a California church, shattered 108 bones, and almost died. Then began his battle to walk and live again.
10+ min |
October - November 2022
Esquire US
Meet Mike Krzyzewski, Retiree
Even without his whistle, it turns out that the greatest hoops coach of all time still likes to let you know who's in charge
2 min |
October - November 2022
Esquire US
Trippie Redd Hits All the Notes
The Ohio MC helped bring SoundCloud rap to the top of the charts. Now he's back with the final and most chaotic installment of his Love Letter mixtape series.
2 min |
October - November 2022
Esquire US
Coming Home
The Uvalde tragedy set me down a path from my west Texas hometown to the hallowed halls of Washington, D.C., from political outsidercynic to inside broker on gun reform that changed me forever.
10+ min |
October - November 2022
Esquire US
Boss Tweed
This fall, Ralph Lauren finds inspiration across the Atlantic for the new Polo Originals
1 min |
October - November 2022
Esquire US
Stories That Singe
Our world is stranger than fiction but not George Saunders's fiction. In Liberation Day, his first collection of short stories in nearly a decade, the Booker Prize winning author of 11 previous books tees up nine genrebending tales of hell-themed amusement parks and brainwashed protesters for hire. In a world getting weirder every day, these stories are the medicine we need. Saunders sat down with Esquire to take us inside his creative process.
2 min |
October - November 2022
Esquire US
Am I a Superhero to My Sons?
Raising kids in my hometown means that my past and present are always colliding especially at the movies. I'd like to think my own story will have a heroic ending.
6 min |
October - November 2022
Esquire US
John Grisham – What I've Learned
John Grisham Writer, 67, Charlottesville, Virginia
4 min |
October - November 2022
Esquire US
Aldis Hodge Was Built for This
The actor, producer, and, incredibly, watchmaker has been carefully constructing his career for years. Now he's ready for his superhero moment, playing Hawkman opposite the Rock in DC's upcoming Black Adam. Soon you won't be able to look up without seeing him, whether he's wearing Hawkman's wings or the season's coolest coats.
3 min |