George Lois never actually worked at Esquire, he simply designed the most iconic magazine covers of the 60s as a moonlighting gig while revolutionizing (and, generally pissing off) the advertising industry by day.

“After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.”

How a 29-year-old actress, reeling from the death of her first love and battling Dustin Hoffman off-screen, found herself on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer.

Lance Butterfield was the captain of the football team, had a 4.0 GPA and a girl he loved. It wasn’t enough for his dad. And then his dad became too much for him.
Part of our guide to Skip Hollandsworth’s true crime writing at Slate.

With the biggest bout of his career looming, Andre Ward — who some consider the world’s best boxer — opens up about his family and his faith.

What the bountiful sex lives of bonobos—they enjoy deep kissing, oral sex, dry humping, and polyamory—can teach us about humanity.

On the lonely life of a for-profit pageant queen.

Departing Marrakech by car with a plan to record music for the Library of Congress.

A profile of Bosnian striker Vedad Ibisevic, who has come home after escaping the war more than 20 years ago.

Severely depressed snow leopards, obsessive-compulsive brown bears, phobic zebras and the inner lives of other captive creatures.

Shirley Dygert had never jumped before. Dave Hartsock jumped for a living. Neither of them knew what to expect when the parachute failed.

An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.

A barely drinking-age Green Day profiled shortly after the release of Dookie.

On the “world’s largest social network that you probably haven’t yet heard of” and its enigmatic founder.

A profile of lifelong thief and 13-time escapee Chris Gay, aka “Little Houdini.”

A journalist and documentarian charts over a decade of her relationship with Philip Roth.

Lester Cotton’s transformation from reluctant football player to top Alabama recruit, and the hopes and dreams of a neighborhood that ride on his shoulders.

The story of Nicole Davis, a 25-year-old woman diagnosed with breast cancer six months into her pregnancy.

Paul Krugman breaks down the basics of climate change economics, from Arthur Cecil Pigou to Capitol Hill.

An emerging school of therapy says that scripting your dreams while awake could eliminate the worst ones. Not everyone thinks that’s healthy.

Fifty-four days after his group’s Everest climb turned tragic, Krakauer first told the story of what had gone wrong.

A profile of Esquire features writer Chris Jones. Plus: the Jones archive on Longform.org.

A profile of the congressman turned morning show host, who spends his free time working on a musical about Donald Trump.

A young Brazilian couple from “an impoverished northeastern city that’s been described as ground zero of the Zika epidemic” struggle to care for their daughter.

Did a forgotten black gumshoe inspire the famous works of both Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett?