Esquire USA - 05.2017

Esquire is a funny, informative, connected magazine that covers the interests of American men—all the interests of the American man: Politics, style, advice, women, health, eating and drinking, the most interesting people of our time. All that and it’s the most-honored monthly magazine in history.

*... Mad Man By Jessica Pressler. How does Javier Bardem find the soul within the beast? * Charge of the Right Brigade. By Sam Tanenhaus. If you’re wondering how Donald Trump happened, just ask Pat Buchanan, the founding father of Republican insurrection. * Dealing. By A.O. Scott. The author was in a full-blown midlife crisis. Then he joined a poker game, and everything changed. * Signs and Wonders. By J. D. Daniels. A rollicking two-thousand-mile ride in search of the heart of the heart of the country. * RELEASE THE BEAST. LEXUS was the sleepy choice. Then the LC 500 happened. By Kevin Sintumuang. We’ll talk about speed. But first, let’s hit the brakes. There is a road in Tennessee called the Tail of the Dragon. With its 318 turns over 11 miles of Smoky Mountains, the name is not hyperbolic. * EXCESS BAGGAGE. What to do when you look like you pulled an ALL-NIGHTER — but didn’t. Team Trump is looking tired. Consider U.S. Defense Secretary General “Mad Dog” Mattis. At his confirmation hearing in January, the bags under his eyes looked overstuffed. Has he been losing sleep? * A rented Lincoln, a haunted hotel, and the last home of William S. Burroughs. Blazing ninety-five miles per hour down the two-lane highway that runs through the middle of America, J.D. DANIELS takes a rollicking two-thousand-mile ride in search of the heart of the heart of the country. Photographs by TERRY RICHARDSON. “YOU DO UNDERSTAND that the center of the earth is extremely hot,” a friend said when he saw me packing Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. “The center of the earth is uninhabitable.” ...*