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SUNGLASSES FOR GUYS WHO CAN’T COMMIT
Esquipedia • A BRIEF MONTHLY EXPANSION ON A TOPIC EXPLORED ELSEWHERE IN THE ISSUE (SEE PAGE 108)
OUT OF ATTICA
Spot On: Summer
CATCH SOME BRAIN WAVES • These WORK-FREE DAYS mean you can actually ditch the mindless pop culture junk and dive into books and movies with REAL DEPTH
ANTI-POPCORN SUMMER MOVIES • DON’T WORRY, THEY’RE NOT DEPRESSING
GET GRAPHIC • NEWISH CINEMATIC COMICS THAT MIGHT BE MORE SATISFYING THAN GOING TO THE MOVIES
TAKE THE PLUNGE: SUMMER READING • BOOK RECS FROM NINE ESQUIRE-ENDORSED WRITERS, ZERO ALGORITHMS
DIGITAL BALLERS • The NBA is the first big league to go big-league with esports
SUMMER-IZE YOUR PANTRY • It’s the EASY WAY to eat well on lazy days
INNER CHILLNESS • The latest WELLNESS CRAZES are made for lazybones
CONFESSIONS OF A FAKE-NEWS SHARER • Facebook is under fire for spreading fake news. They’re not the only ones. Below, one man annotates his posts with refreshing candor.
GET READY TO BRING THE HEAT • STAND OUT this season with our warm-weather guide to SWITCHING UP your look
ISN’T IT TIME YOU TRADED UP?
THE LIFE AQUATIC • Nothing says UNSINKABLE COOL quite like a dive watch
THE WOVEN ONES • Artist Taka Hayashi takes OLD-SCHOOL Vans slip-ons to the NEXT LEVEL
ANALYZE THIS
MAKING THE CASE • After a year of POWER MOVES at Louis Vuitton, the 164-year-old house is launching its FIRST-EVER MEN’S COLOGNES. But does it know how GUYS TODAY want to smell?
SO…WHAT DO THEY SMELL LIKE?
THE WELL-SUITED TYPE • Finally, some BEACH-READY shorts fit for grown-ups (with photographic prints that still pack PLENTY OF FLASH)
BECAUSE HE DOESN’T NEED ANOTHER TIE • GIVE THE GIFT OF STYLE WITH THREE KEY PIECES
HOLD ’EM AND FOLD ’EM • CANALI’S first foray into eyewear makes a MAJOR STATEMENT
THE BOLDER, THE BETTER • To celebrate its reimagined SANTOS watch, Cartier hosted a gathering designed to GET PEOPLE TALKING
It’s Getting HOT in HERE • Come SUMMER, our man doesn’t look to ESCAPE THE HEAT, hunkered down in some overchilled hell. HE LUXURIATES IN IT.
Spot On: Summer
Late BLOOMER • With a critically acclaimed role on GLOW, MARC MARON is quickly becoming more than the KING OF PODCASTS. But as he tells ADAM GRANT, it was a long, long road to now.
BY INVITATION ONLY
The Best BARS IN AMERICA, 2018 • Twenty-one exemplary places to start a tab
Spot On: Lounge Acts
Spot On: Lounge Acts
Spot On: Lounge Acts
THE NEW KING OF HOLLYWOOD • BLACK PANTHER hit the box office–and the culture–with such force that it now ranks with the likes of Titanic and Star Wars, having earned $1.3 billion and counting. Star CHADWICK BOSEMAN speaks out on a watershed moment for Hollywood and for himself. PLUS, CHRIS ROCK, OPRAH WINFREY, LENA WAITHE, and more on what the stunning success of the first blockbuster black-superhero movie means for America and the rest of the world.
THE ROAD TO WAKANDA MILESTONES IN BLACK CINEMA
“THIS PLACE IS CRAZY” • Our mental-health-care system is broken. Consider this: Ten of every eleven psychiatric patients housed by the government are incarcerated. Here’s what this crisis looks like from the inside—a series of lost lives and a few rare victories—as reported by a prisoner-journalist in New York’s notorious Attica Correctional Facility.
The Butterfly KILLER...