Every week from now through Labor Day, we’ll be publishing a new fiction story from the archive as part of the Esquire Fiction Festival. It begins with “Treaty ,” an amazing new story fro...
I WAS BORN INTO AN ERA where opportunity was far from guaranteed for people who looked like me. I BELIEVE DEEPLY that whether you grew up in Ouagadougou or Paris, there is a place for you, ...
> One of rock and roll’s eternal greats shares his insights into > paganism, playing guitar, scars, fatherhood, sex, and clarity. https://medium.com/media/c041e05e3afc70a...
For more wisdom from B.B. King, read his full What I’ve Learned at Esquire.com . The Illustrated Wisdom of B.B. King was originally published in What I’ve Learned on Medium, where peop...
> There is no other man like Tom Cruise. Here, he tells us about how > he became the man he is now — through singing, through his > paper route as a kid, th...
> The great actors experience life on two levels: There is that > outside and beyond the work; then there is life inside the > character. It is through those lenses...
STEAL AS MUCH WISDOM from other people as you can. CONTEXT helps. WE HAVE THESE SUPERPRIVATE FEELINGS and conundrums that are actually fairly universal. We just don’t talk about them as mu...
MY DAD WAS A MASCULINE, BIG, HAIRY GUY who was good with tools and stuff, but he wasn’t a blustery, alpha asshole. I can remember him looking at a Cosmopolitan magazine while we were at the ...
For more wisdom and life lessons from Julia Child, read her full What I’ve Learned at Esquire.com. The Inimitable Julia Child On Why Fat Makes Everything Better was originally published in W...
> It is the job of the writer to see the world from all angles, to > shape it in his or her mind, and then both translate and illuminate > it to all their read...