Esquire Classic Podcast

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 that persists and thrives today.

When a surgeon cut into Henry Molaison’s skull to treat him for epilepsy, he inadvertently created the most important brain-research subject of our time—a man who could no longer remember, who taught us everything we know about memory. Six decades later, another daring researcher is cutting into Henry’s brain. Another revolution in brain science is about to begin.

When a surgeon cut into Henry Molaison’s skull to treat him for epilepsy, he inadvertently created the most important brain-research subject of our time—a man who could no longer remember, who taught us everything we know about memory. Six decades later, another daring researcher is cutting into Henry’s brain. Another revolution in brain science is about to begin.

John H. Richardson on our cultural infatuation with celebrity and the humanity that lurks on both sides of the camera lens.

At the end of a glorious career, the defiant legend takes refuge in his most cherished partner—himself.

And some of the most important people in some of the most important places in New York, New Jersey, Southern California and Las Vegas are suddenly developing postnasal drip

The artist’s life demands solitude, sensitivity, and often a little something to get him through the night. The very same things can destroy him

Do you remember this photograph?

What it feels like to be a boy in America.

He was a beautiful man, and someone had to liberate these women from their marriages. When he died, women grieved. Lots and lots of women.

A Hurdler in Inner Space.

When he looks back at his father, he sees a dim figure losing its substance to sickness, and when the past is a cipher, there is no redeeming the present. There is only living it.

The closing of the Four Seasons, home of the “power lunch.”

Do you smell that? That’s another Michael Bay movie burning up the box office. And if that bothers you, if you think he’s just another schlockmeister with fancy cars and testosterone problems, all he can say is, shame on you. Shame on you!

Norman Maclean taught Shakespeare until he was seventy, then wrote a timeless story worthy of the bard himself.

John H. Richardson on our cultural infatuation with celebrity and the humanity that lurks on both sides of the camera lens.

The man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden tells his story for the first time.

In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all the time, how does a massive airplane simply go missing?

The furious saga of Teddy Ballgame.

Boy oh boy oh boy, Sanberg. You’re 92. And you’ve been old longer than you’ve been anything else.