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I Am Falling Apart

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The Bullet in My Mother’s Head

I Gave Myself a Month to Make One New Friend

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How to Talk Like a Man

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The Cousin I Never Knew

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When My Father Talked About Larry Bird

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Who Gets to Be a Father Figure?

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The Lost Art of Buying a Round for the Bar

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I Am a Wellness Asshole Now

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I Took Mushrooms at a Concert. It Helped My ADHD.

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Inside the Savage Sport of Slap Fighting

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The Day I Finally Threw My First Punch

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The Joker Actors, Ranked from Worst to Best

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You May Live to 100. Here's How to Pay For It.

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Inside My Days as a Content Bot

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What Happens When Your Longtime Therapist Dies?

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How (Not) To Grieve

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What Is Successful Nonmonogamy Anyway?

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American Tragedy: The Death of an Alabama Pastor

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Is “Doomslang” Making Us All Numb?

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Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive?

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The All-American Father

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What If Profound Lovesickness Isn’t Romantic?

The Redemption of Al Sharpton

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What Really Happened to Baby Christina?

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Inside My Mid-Life Crisis

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In the War Room with Steve Bannon

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There Are Only Two Options Left In Ukraine

I Got Paid For Two Years and Never Did Any Work

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I Got Paid to Spy on People While They Worked

God, Magic Mushroom, and Me

The Prisoner and the Pen

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The Accidental Activist

I’m Losing Weight by Secretly Taking Wegovy

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The Scout Who Found Patrick Mahomes

Read an Excerpt From Stephen King's 'Holly'

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Persecution in the Name of the Lord

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The Secrets That Split My Family in Half

The Two Weirdest Years in Music

He Gave Up Acting to Be an OnlyFans Performer

Confessions of a 'Pay Pig'

96 Hours in an American Ghost Town

The Burden of Aaron Judge

My Mother, the Poker Shark

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Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good?

I Had Surgery to Make My Dick Bigger

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Inside The Battle For North Dakota’s Bookshelves

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The Unbearable Costs of Becoming a Writer

My Life As a Porn Addict

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At the Biggest Machine Gun Shoot in the World

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I Lost $500,000 on Sports Betting and Won't Quit

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My Decade of Temporary Homes

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The Secret Lives of Men: My Dick Is Too Big

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The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea

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Inside the Plan to Fix Baseball

The $130 Million Cell-Phone Scam

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The Secret Weapons of Ukraine

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Do You Want to Be Right or Happy?

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My Bug-Out Bag, The Wilderness, and Me

The Silent Epidemic Affecting Generation Z

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My Ladies’ Night Inside a Members-Only Sex Club

Sex, Love, & Marriage Behind Bars

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'Do YoUr oWN ReSEarch' Has Come for the Elections

I Was Lost Until I Became a Stoic

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The Joy of Spending Thanksgiving in a Casino Alone

Murder and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Love, Marriage, Loss, and Apple Pie

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The Last Great Insult

The Militiamen, and the Kidnapping That Wasn't

"Islanders," by Joe Mungo Reed

Mike Conner v. The Pain

Confessions of a Male Model

Looking for Clarence Thomas

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When Your Best Friend Is Your Longest Partnership

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The World Needs Uncles, Too

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I Miss Smoking

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Why Am I, a Gay Man, Christian? It's Complicated.

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The Strong, Silent Type Will Not Shut Up

The Cult Leader of Staten Island

Two Fathers

Sex, Love, and Art in the Suburbs

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I'm a U.S. Veteran. I Trained Ukrainians to Fight.

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What Does the Return to 'Normal' Look Like Now?

My Aging Husband

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A Drinker’s Dilemma: Hangxiety

'Dad, I Hate It When You Sound So Sad'

Who Writes the Rules for Cops?

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I've Never Felt More Like a Failure as a Parent

How to Feel Normal

Death of a Lobsterman

How to Love Your Parents and Hate Their Politics

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The Easiest Part of the Pandemic

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It's Time to Grow Up, America

The Beauty in Lying to Yourself

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Have Sperm, Will Travel

us soldiers gather near a destroyed vehicle and protect their faces from rotor wash, as their wounded comrades are airlifted by a medevac helicopter from the 159th brigade task force thunder to kandahar hospital role 3, on august 23, 2011 three soldiers were wounded while their vehicle was destroyed up by an improvised explosive devise ied all foreign combat troops will leave afghanistan by the end of 2014 in a process that started last month and will require the afghan army and police to play an ever greater role in fighting the taliban insurgency afp photo johannes eisele photo credit should read johannes eiseleafp via getty images

Leaving Afghanistan Behind

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One Last Round With My Brother Tim

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Up Trouble Mountain

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This Boy's (Working) Life

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The Shakedown at Sing Sing

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The Question About Covid Parents Must Answer

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The Joy of Learning How to Ride a Bike as an Adult

You’re Asking the Wrong Questions About Aliens

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Make Your Spotify Listening Feed Public Already

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The Man Who Comes Into My Home at Night

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Nightmare on Main Street

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The Only Son of a Ladies Man

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The Rise of Elevated Stupidity

The Rise and Fall of Planet Hollywood

Inside Youth Baseballs Most Notorious Dad Rivalry

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Parents Are Still F*cked

'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus' at 30

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The End of My Pandemic Affair

What It's Like to Have Sexsomnia

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On The Blue Water

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I Built a Front-Of-House Career Despite Psoriasis

How Did Tyson Steele Survive?

The Wrestler

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Abuse of Force

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Misogynistic Media On View In Britney Spears Doc

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Angry Country Fans Don't Know Garth Brooks History

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On Scandal in 'Tiger,' and the Real Villain

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Don't Say That At the Office

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Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish

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When a Bottle of Costco Bourbon Is Something More

“Just Tell me When I’m Going Home”

The Ballad of Ron and Dorinda

Coppola is the Godfather of Quarantining

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An Easy Appetizer and Fun Wines for Thanksgiving

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Esquire's BTS Cover: The Selected Transcripts

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13 Outtakes from Our Winter Cover Shoot With BTS

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Have One On Me

Esquire's Best New Restaurants in America, 2020

washington, dc march 26 us vice president joe biden gives a young boy a stuffed version of bidens dog, champ, while visiting a diner march 26, 2014 in washington, dc biden visited the florida avenue grill to highlight the administrations efforts to raise the national minimum wage to 1010 an hour photo by win mcnameegetty images

This Is Joe Biden When No One Is Watching

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On Slide Inn Road

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Sleep Donation

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The Story of Penthouse’s Most Controversial Issue

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Daily Cleanse

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Good Neighbors

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"Basics"

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The Nominee

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Grace

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The Day the Coronavirus Came to Prison

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Elon Musk, a Rocket, & the Texas Town in Their Way

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John Mulaney Is the Funniest Guy in a Suit and Tie

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The Forever Coach

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The Case of the Missing $7 Million Car

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The Newest Recruit in Our Forever War

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Michael Gandolfini on Becoming Tony Soprano

Brooke Hogan CD Release

Who is Bubba the Love Sponge?

Worlds Tallest Waterslide, Kansas City, USA

How a Freak Accident Happens

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Friday Black

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Searching For the Murderer in The Exorcist

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An Excerpt from ‘Cherry’ by Nico Walker

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When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job

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Esquire Fiction: 'Snake Stories' by Lauren Groff

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How To Raise a Daughter

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I Was Addicted to Running High. It Almost Cost Me.

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My Uncle, the ’70s Porn Star

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The Sacklers and America's Opioid Crisis

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This Is the Most Hellish Marathon in the World

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An Excerpt from Matthew Klam's 'Who Is Rich?'

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My 85-Year-Old Single Mother

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Read an Unpublished Letter from Ernest Hemingway

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The Story of America's First Penis Transplant

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My Father's Fling With Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Inside Snctm Sex Club's Masquerade Party (NSFW)

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Why This Sex Club Founder Is So Damn Unhappy