Last week, the Hugo Awards melted down over unexplained disqualifications. Insiders tell Esquire what really happened—and what it could mean for the future of literary awards.
I headed into the woods with a backpack designed for doomsday preppers, contents unknown. My mission: to make it through the next 24 hours. Along the way, I learned something new about survival, and the ways that we try to prepare for it.
The employees of the Clark County public administrator's office were at odds over their ambitious boss, Robert Telles. Then Vegas’s biggest newspaper ran an exposé on the chaos, the reporter behind the story turned up dead—and Telles was charged with his murder. Now his staff is left wondering: How did it come to this?
At the age of 19, Jeff Gross fell under the sway of a much older, charismatic Svengali. Decades later, his life is unrecognizable. What the hell happened?
Guy’s always working—sixty-eight movies in thirty-five years. Playing killing machines, doofuses, romantics, messiahs, and devils. But always Keanu. Which always means something more.
His wife was just thirty-four. They had two little girls. The cancer was everywhere, and the parts of dying that nobody talks about were about to start. His best friend came to help out for a couple weeks. And he never left.
Even some of the higher-ups didn't know about it at first. Here's why the brand wanted to "let the world find it on its own."
Thursday marks an absurd anniversary in the coronavirus crisis. The only difference between then and now is that it’s all so much worse.
Fifteen years after he created ‘Always Sunny,’ he’s using the lessons he learned to navigate changes in comedy.
Who among us has not spent $20,000 in other people's charity money on a six-foot portrait of ourselves?
The Kris Kobach-led voter fraud commission is being exposed as a bigger scam with each passing day.
Governor Greg Abbott played to the conspiracies about Jade Helm. And now?
His sentences were scattered, fragmented, and hard to understand—including when he was smearing his accusers.
The Senate Majority Leader is shameless in his disregard for democratic norms—and for shame itself.
What do you do when the thing that brought you success is what you need to leave behind?
Michael Mann was at an anniversary screening to reveal what makes the De Niro-Pacino heist movie a classic.
FBI Director James Comey has long been renowned for his integrity and independence. So why did he upend the 2016 election? An exclusive report from inside the FBI.
Ron Swanson might not exist, but Offerman's love of woodworking is very real in 'Good Clean Fun.'
One married man, a machine that can read his mind, and a head-to-head matchup between his wife... and Angelina Jolie. Sounds like no good can come of this. Unless, of course, he discovers the meaning of love.
mexican border Photographs by Vance Jacobs The fence starts about eighty feet out into the Pacific. It’s made of metal pylons and looks like a procession of old…
eric schadt Douglas Adesko Originally published in our April 2011 issue There may be another scientist in the world as smart as Eric Schadt. After all,…
