Issue March 2018 - Esquire UK (2024)

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IN THIS ISSUECONTRIBUTORSSanjiv BhattacharyaTwice Joaquin Phoenix has graced our cover, and both times our US correspondent has tried to grill the movie star: “Each time that I’ve interviewed Joaquin there’s this hilarious tension. He’s a lovely, friendly guy, but he doesn’t like talking about himself because he’s private and self-deprecating. But every time, I come away inspired.” Bhattacharya’s book, Secrets and Wives: the Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy (Soft Skull), is out now.Tim Lewis“In 20 years of writing for men’s magazines, this story is the weirdest and the most unlikely I’ve ever reported,” says Esquire’s contributing editor of his investigation into illegal butterfly hunting. “The world of lepidoptery is properly, brilliantly eccentric and that made it fascinating to dip into.” A features writer for The Observer, Lewis’s book, Land of Second Chances:…2 min

IN THIS ISSUEEditor’s LetterMasculinity: sometimes I think we’ve got it all figured out. Then I’m reminded that most of us are still rolling around in the mud with JoaquinIS YOUR ARM PARTY ON FLEEK? Do you coat sling? What’s your position on co-ed fashion? Will you be flexing your gender fluid gorpcore this weekend? Are you an instacopper or an investment piece shopper? Worried about your jean lay? Overwhelmed by colourways but not comfortable going murdered out? Don’t know your sports luxe from your sprezzatura from your struggle brands?Haven’t the foggiest notion of what I’m on about? Don’t get your Towie tights in a twist. Turn, instead, to Esquire’s A–Z of fashion-babble on page 106. Here, as a way of welcoming you to the new season—it’s spring already, in styleworld—our sartorial lexicographer Simon…4 min

REGULARSSelf Examination“KNEES UP, MOTHER BROWN / KNEES UP, MOTHER BROWN / KNEES UP, KNEES UP, DON’T GET THE BREEZE UP / KNEES UP, MOTHER BROWN.”So we sang back in the day, in our little crib off the Roman Road—me nan swigging a bottle of milk stout, me old man banging out the rhythm on the roof of his sherbet (sherbet dab = cab), preparatory to getting so drunk he’d take it up the Gary (Gary Glitter = sh*tter). Oh, it was an innocent era, right enough, when the sight of a shapely knee could drive a young co*ckney such as myself to distraction. But why? On the face of it, there’s little less erotic—when it comes to the human body—than the knee; for this is the body part that reminds us…5 min

REGULARSFORTUNE FAVOURS THE BOLDEarly on in the first season of HBO’s sci-fi-Western hybrid Westworld, William, the wide-eyed, wary guest of the android theme park, was established as one of the show’s pivotal characters. By questioning everything about a mind-bending world in which people pay to indulge their darkest impulses, the character, played by Jimmi Simpson, became our proxy. But don’t assume that means Simpson will spill the beans on what to expect when the show returns this spring: he pleads near-total ignorance about the plot, only allowing that it’ll be epic. “Everything I hear, I’m like, ‘Oh, my God.’”But first he stars in February’s US TV series Unsolved, based on the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious BIG. Simpson plays Russell Poole, an LAPD detective who went to his grave believing that…3 min

REGULARSTHE STYLE CLINICDear Esquire,After years of wearing my birthday suit in the sack—the ex-wife always insisted on sleeping with the windows closed and the radiator on so naked was the only way to go—I’ve recently experienced a change in personal circ*mstances (did you notice the use of the tragic prefix “ex-” before wife?) and now I find myself in a flatshare surrounded by youngsters. I dread bumping into my new housemates in the corridor on one of my increasingly frequent early hours sorties to the loo. Doubtless he—or worse, she—would scream in terror, and I’d be up on charges. What I’m asking is: should I bow to the inevitable (not to mention decorum) and invest in some PJs? It just seems so… well… middle-aged.Yours, Ronald,Dulwich borders‘Thankfully, Ronald, these days the PJ options…2 min

Issue March 2018 - Esquire UK (2024)

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