As Ian McEwan releases his new book Solar, in which, familiarly, a man of deviant appetite and less-than-sound morals is cast in a tussle between science and nature, Esquire looks at the men who write men best – even if it isn’t always flattering. (more…)
March 18th, 2010
Esky, Esquire’s mascot, was born in 1934. He has featured on more than 500 copies of the magazine, and appears every month on our cover, graces our Twitter page and look top left, there he is again. Well, Esky may well be in for a shock.
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March 17th, 2010
There comes a stage in every rock star’s life where they have a clear choice to make. Persevere with living and toddle towards self-parody like Ozzy Osborne and Iggy Pop or expire in a blaze of drugs, plane crashes and gun-crime like the subjects of Rock Shrines: Where The Stars’ Lives Ended And The Myths Began. (more…)
March 16th, 2010
When kids are left to their own devices the results can be chaotic. They don’t, however, normally include death and wide-spread destruction as they do in Kick-Ass, the eagerly anticipated superhero film, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Aaron Johnson. Now, the graphic novel on which it is based has been reissued, and like the film, it’s not for the faint-hearted. (more…)
March 11th, 2010
Fresh from illustrating our State of Man survey this month, Esquire contributor David McCandless has gone and published his first book, Information is Beautiful. (more…)
February 11th, 2010
A quick visit to any bookshop (if you can find any left) will quickly tell you the world does not need another tome on the work of Spanish Modernist architect Antoni Gaudi. Chances are you’ve visited his Sagrada Familia or the Casa Mila on a school trip or as the cultural conscience salve in-between all night binges in the Gothic quarter. However, Modernista: Gaudi And His Contemporaries by Michael Jones is a worthwhile addition to the creaking shelves. (more…)
January 20th, 2010
I first read this sentence a couple of years ago - ”The brute covers himself, the rich man and the fop adorn themselves, the elegant man dresses.” It’s taken from Treatise On Elegant Living by Honoré de Balzac, which, next month, is to be published in English for the first time. I’ve already placed a pre-order; it seems likely to be required reading for men with an over-developed interest in their appearance. www.artbook.com
January 8th, 2010
Books, Entertainment, Gaming, Technology
Mr T plays them, Ozzy Osbourne grudgingly admits that he’s not as scary as some of them, and Ant & Dec fall out over them. No longer the preserve of socially inept adolescents, computer games are now possibly the world’s biggest industry. Fun Inc, the new book by Tom Chatfield, has some interesting theories on how this came to be, and what we can expect in the future. (more…)
January 7th, 2010
