Read Every Article Esquire Has Ever Published
For nearly 90 years, Esquire has been the home of award-winning journalism, big acts of storytelling, celebrity interviews, fashion advice, cultural commentary, cocktail recipes, and more. That entire archive, known as Esquire Classic, will now be available to those who sign up for an Esquire Select membership in full.
A little bit about us: Gay Talese's "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," which ran in our April 1966 issue, is one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever written; a pioneering example of what soon after came to be called New Journalism. "Can You Say...Hero?," the definitive profile of Fred Rogers, published in our November 1998 edition, just became a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks. Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is now the most famous collection of short stories about the Vietnam War in existence, but it began at Esquire, when what would become the book's first chapter published in these pages in August 1986.
Of course, there is so much more. "The Falling Man," by Tom Junod, which ran in our September 2003 issue, is one of 9/11's most unforgettable stories; a piece many return to yearly in memory of those lost. And in 1972, at the peak of the second-wave feminist movement, Nora Ephron penned her iconic essay "A Few Words About Breasts," here. Jodie Foster, a former intern of this magazine, in fact, became a centerpiece in John Hinkley Jr. assassination attempt of President Reagan. She published her lone response in Esquire. We've played host to a slew of other brilliant, seminal writers: Eve Babitz, Joan Didion, James Baldwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, no less.
In 2021, one of the most moving essays in our catalog, "The Friend," also got a big screen adaptation. A remarkable account of the bond between two men in the face of grief, it's an account that won't soon be forgotten by any who read it. Equally memorable, though for a host of other reasons, the true story of Geri McGee also ran in Esquire, in 1995. Why do you know her? She was played by Sharon Stone—iconically, we might add—in director Martin Scorsese's Casino.
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