Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn, by Ken Auletta
If president-elect Donald Trump learned anything from his mentor Roy Cohn, it was this: punch first and never apologize. Cohn was notorious for going ...
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A timely and revealing update of some of the most groundbreaking narrative journalism ever published by Esquire since its founding in 1933. Presented by PRX and Esquire Magazine.
The Plane at the Bottom of the Ocean, by Bucky McMahon
The question is astonishingly simple: In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all the time, how does a massive ai...
The Price of Being President, by Richard Ben Cramer
Published in 1992, Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes: The Way to the White House remains the richest and most unvarnished account of the personal pri...
The Old Man and the River, by Pete Dexter
Norman Maclean published A River Runs Through It when he was seventy-three, and only after his children implored him to write down the stories about f...
The Days of Wine and Pig Hocks, by Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison, the novelist and poet who died earlier this year at the age of 78, had a gargantuan, fearless appetite that would make both A.J. Lieblin...
Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case! by Garry Wills
12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley discusses Garry Wills’s 1968 profile, “Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case!”
Love in the Time of Magic, by E. Jean Carroll
A chronicle of risk and romance on the sidelines of the NBA
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, by Tom Wolfe
A meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce and Tom Wolfe.
The House That Thurman Munson Built, by Michael Paterniti
Trust me, he said, and the last great brawling sports team in America did. Twenty years after Thurman Munson’s death, Reggie, Catfish, Goose, Gator, t...
The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up," a series of essays from 1936 about his alcoholism and mental breakdown, set off a genre of confessional writing ...