Author Archive
November 27, 2024In 2007, Esquire mailed 250 cocktail napkins to writers across the country with this request: Fill the blank space with fiction. We received nearly 100 napkin stories and published...
October 30, 2024It’s time to check in: How’s the year in books coming along for you, dear reader? As we approach the conclusion of 2024, we’re enjoying an embarrassment of literary...
October 2, 2024Ina Garten, seventy-six, is one of the most beloved and successful figures in American culinary history. It all began in 1978, when she left her role writing nuclear-energy budgets...- August 14, 2024Here at Esquire, writers are the backbone of our magazine. But while some contribute stories just once or twice, others journey with us for decades, becoming downright intertwined...
July 29, 2024It's time to check in: how's the year in books coming along for you, dear reader? Halfway through 2024, we’re enjoying an embarrassment of literary riches—and now,...
July 1, 2024Sun’s out, school’s out, and summer reading season is officially in session. Whether you’ve kept up with your TBR pile or fallen woefully behind on your goals,...
May 29, 2024“You never know about the people pulling the actual strings of life in America,” author Teddy Wayne tells Esquire, “because they’re completely out of...
May 22, 2024Fifty years ago, Stephen King published Carrie, a slim volume about a bullied teenager and the violent revenge she exacts on her high school classmates. Seventy-six books later, King...
April 30, 2024The oldest stories in the world are love stories. Boy meets girl; girl shares her campfire; they live happily ever after, two cavepeople against the cruel world. In the millennia...
April 23, 2024In January, when packing my bags for a "reading retreat" in the Dominican Republic, I agonized about which books to bring. A few days later, bellied up to the beachside bar at the...
April 3, 2024In the opening pages of Holly Gramazio’s time-bending debut novel, The Husbands, 30-something Lauren returns to her London flat late at night to find her husband waiting at the...
March 25, 2024James centers on a seminal character from American literature—and yet, seen afresh through the gaze of acclaimed writer Percival Everett, it’s as if we’re meeting...
February 21, 2024The institution of marriage isn’t doing so hot. In the United States, fewer Americans are getting married than ever before, while many are getting married later in life, if at...
