The Untold Stories of Election Day 2016
What really happened on November 8, 2016.
What really happened on November 8, 2016.
A visit to a Trump rally in Ohio.
Martin Amis Esquire Oct 2017 20min Permalink
In 1956, an ocean liner named the Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Cape Cod. Half a century later, deep-sea divers—the author included—were still risking their lives to explore it.
Bucky McMahon Esquire Jul 2000 35min Permalink
Growing old at the Playboy Mansion.
Chris Jones Esquire Apr 2013 40min Permalink
Christian Longo brutally murdered his familyand then posed in Mexico as a New York Times reporter named Michael Finkel. From death row, Longo asked the real Finkel to attend his execution.
Michael Finkel Esquire Dec 2009 1h Permalink
Did Michell Carter’s texts cause Conrad Roy to kill himself?
Jesse Barron Esquire Aug 2017 25min Permalink
Noorullah Aminya was once a valuable ally to the American military. Then, with the Taliban going after his family, he attempted to defect and spent three years in federal detention. To be granted asylum, he needed to convince a judge that the Taliban rule Afghanistan in full. Which would mean America has lost the war.
Brian Castner Esquire Aug 2017 25min Permalink
Once a Red Sox hero, Curt Schilling’s loud climb towards right-wing media fame may have cost him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He doesn’t care.
Timothy Bella Esquire Jun 2017 Permalink
Coming to terms with exercise bulimia.
Luke O'Neil Esquire Jun 2017 10min Permalink
A sniper’s bullet and a long recovery.
Brian Mockenhaupt Esquire Apr 2006 35min Permalink
A profile of Rev. William Barber II, who gave one of the most memorable speeches at last summer’s Democratic National Convention and is now leading the Christian protest against the White House.
Tommy Tomlinson Esquire Apr 2017 20min Permalink
Bill Conradt, a well-known prosecutor, never arrived at the house in Murphy, Texas, where police and a crew from NBC’s To Catch a Predator were waiting. So the crew, along with a SWAT team, went to Conradt.
Luke Dittrich Esquire Feb 2009 Permalink
The artist at 85.
Luke Dittrich Esquire Jan 2012 15min Permalink
A profile of Damon Lawner and his mansion.
Mike Sager Esquire Nov 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of Beatty on the heels of Bonnie and Clyde.
How a card-counting former meteorologist from Las Vegas made the first perfect Showcase bid in the 38-year history of The Price Is Right.
Chris Jones Esquire Jul 2010 20min Permalink
Raheel Siddiqui was a young Muslim who dreamed of becoming a Marine. At twenty, he started basic training at Parris Island, where barking drill sergeants transform callow recruits into elite killing machines. Less than two weeks after he arrived, Siddiqui suffered a mysterious and fatal fall. The Marine Corps says he committed suicide, but some think more sinister forces led to his death.
Alex French Esquire Jan 2017 20min Permalink
Not all that long ago, as the editor in chief of Gawker.com, Daulerio was among the most influential and feared figures in media. Now the forty-two-year-old is unemployed, his bank has frozen his life savings of $1,500, and a $1,200-per-month one-bedroom is all he can afford. He's renting here, he says, to be near the counselors and support network he has come to rely on lately.
Maximillian Potter Esquire Jan 2017 25min Permalink
A report from inside the FBI.
Tim Weiner Esquire Dec 2016 20min Permalink
A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.
Richard Ben Cramer Esquire Oct 1985 35min Permalink
A profile of Roseanne Barr and her multiple personalities.
Mike Sager Esquire Aug 2001 25min Permalink
When the Champ met Castro.
Gay Talese Esquire Sep 1996 30min Permalink
The life, death, and ghost of a catcher.
Michael Paterniti Esquire Sep 1999 35min Permalink
On George Plimpton and the founders of The Paris Review.
Early in the fifties another young generation of American expatriates in Paris became twenty-six years old, but they were not Sad Young Men, nor were they Lost; they were the witty, irreverent sons of a conquering nation.
Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1963 20min Permalink
A profile of New York Times obituary writer Alden Whitman.
Gay Talese Esquire Feb 1966 20min Permalink