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Skip to main content Esquire Classic Issues Topics Contributors Login Subscribe Weekly Newsletter -- Latest Issue Latest Issue March 2020 Preview FEATURES SNOWFLAKE By Ryan D'Agostino FEATURES THE PLACE TO BE By KATE STOREY FEATURES THE DAY THE ROCKET CAME TO BOCA CHICA By Rachel Monroe View Issue Now The Big Bite Our weekly selection of stories from our archives that reflect what’s going on now. PROFILES March 1999 Please Leave David Ho Alone Not long ago, the brilliant doctor had AIDS on the ropes, and the world tried to make him a celebrity. Now the virus counterattacks. A little peace and quiet, if you don't mind. By Alec Wilkinson FEATURES August 1981 The Collapse Of '84 Three years after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, the nation is in turmoil. The reason, of course, is the economy. But what exactly went wrong? Here to tell the sorry tale is one Jeremy Wingate, fictional economist, putative member of David Stockman’s OMB team, a White House insider who got out just in time... By Chris Welles Features October 1998 Rule 1: Don't Panic. Rule 2: Panic First. They said the Asian markets wouldn't crash. They crashed. They said the crisis wouldn't spread. It spread. They said the catastrophe wouldn't affect us. Get ready. By Walter Russell Mead Features March 1999 The Virus at the End of the World We thought the worst epidemic in history had been subdued. But this is not the same AIDS. This is a monster that is mutating faster than we can keep up. It's alive. It's healthy. And the worst is yet to come. By LAURIE GARRETT January 2001 What Is a Pandemic? If you're a man between thirty and fifty, there's one-in-twenty chance you have Hepatitis C. And as for a cure, there isn't one. Most times, there aren't even symptoms. Until it's too late. Ten thousand Americans will die from it this year. That's what a pandemic is. By Jim Atkinson Esky Essential FEATURES August 1981 Wrasslin' with This Thing Called Willie Nelson Is the man all he’s cracked up to be? By ROY BLOUNT JR. The Plot Against America Features October 2010 Philip Roth Goes Home Again As he publishes his thirty-first book, our greatest novelist returns to the Newark of his boyhood. And there, on Philip Roth Plaza he can’t stop laughing By SCOTT RAAB FEATURES August 1968 Flash!... WWinchell Is a Reluctant Anachronism... (Ohmigahd!) Izzatso? Waitaminit!... Maybe it izzint zzo zzimple… Whyzzat? By Michael Zwerin Articles October 1963 Where Did Charles Lindbergh Go? Look carefully; the next unsmiling face you see in the crowd might belong to the golden son of the century, the last hero By WALTER ROSS FEATURES March 2008 A Newspaper Can't Love You Back In case you haven’t been listening . . . By David Simon FEATURES November 1992 Winona Among the Grown-ups Leading lady to Scorsese and Coppola, the twenty-one-year-old former dream teen is set at last to become her generation’s first great actress—and a truly fabulous babe. By MICHAEL W. HIRSCHORN True Crime HOLLYWOOD August 1973 The Corpse as Big as the Ritz A mystery starring Sarah Miles, Burt Reynolds and the legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald, in which life imitates Monday Night at the Movies By Ron Rosenbaum FEATURES June 1990 A Case of Wife Murder Charles Stuart’s hunger for a new life meant doing something wicked to the one he had By JOHN SEDGWICK FEATURES March 1976 Dead Ringers A bizarre case of the death of twins By Ron Rosenbaum, Susan Edmiston Make ’em Laugh HOLLYWOOD May 2006 Heaven, Hell, Dave Chappelle The agonizing return of the funniest man in America By Kevin Powell ARTICLES June 1972 Why Is This Woman Funny? Carol Burnett: "I *think* I know when something is funny because I—No. I know when *I* think something is funny because I think that." By Harold Brodkey Picture This PICTURED ESSAYS January 1965 Carol’s Dream Inside the car, the hand belongs to Carol Channing, star of Hello, Dolly!; beyond the window, some of her fans; at right, the dream she has about them, every two weeks or so. “Sometimes, I dream like they sit under the hood and crawl into the car and around the wheel. Sometimes they’re under my knees. They’re wriggling their hands and like Dumbo they wriggle their ears. They’re in my crib. Nightie-night, they say, sticking out their tongues. By PICTORIAL November 1957 25c a Celebrity By PICTURED ESSAYS January 1960 The Clown The lonesome world outside center ring By Pictured Essays July 1960 The Vertical Journey Six movements of a moment within the heart of the city By Diane Arbus PICTURED ESSAYS January 1960 ...And Whose Little Girl Are You? ...Henry Fonda's little girl, Jane, that's who By This American Life Features March 1998 Jimmy Hoffa Is Buried Here The only son is a lawyer who grew up soft, but his eyes, his voice, and his ambition all say . . . Hoffa By Thomas Kelly Features April 1995 Falling As Eric Morse’s death proves, no matter how hard you cling to life on Chicago’s South Side, it is often impossible to keep from going down By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ARTICLE November 1935 The Now Sainted Huey A psychologist's post-mortem of the animating impulses of the late Senator from Louisiana By WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON ESSAY September 1992 Dead Black Men and Other Fallout from the American Dream After the looting and the killing and the hurting of Los Angeles, it may at long last have come down to a simple choice: equality or anarchy By John Edgar Wideman June 2005 Into the Light Michael May had everything. Happy marriage, great family, successful business. He was even a world-class athlete. What kind of a man would upset such a perfect life by doing something as crazy as trying to get his sight back? By Robert Kurson The Literary Life PROFILES December 1985 The Short Story of Jayne Anne Phillips She transforms isolation and dark obsession into exquisite prose By David Edelstein PROFILES July 1980 Frances Fitzgerald Is Fascinated with Failure The failure of intelligence, that is—as in the cases of Vietnam, Iran, American education, and, especially, journalism By ROBERT FRIEDMAN THE LITERARY LIFE January 1991 The Highbrow Days and Downtown Nights of Erroll McDonald There’s not a club in New York that the maverick editor hasn’t crashed, including the most exclusive one of all—publishing By Vince Passaro Enter a Search 3 Free Articles Left Unlock every article Esquire ever published Subscribe Login Every Article. Every Page. Every issue of Esquire ever published. 1933 to today. Welcome Issues Topics Contributors Search Support Newsletter Give a Gift Login Subscribe Weekly Newsletter -- Esquire ©2020 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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