SANJIV BHATTACHARYA

Esquire’s long-time man in Los Angeles works a double shift for the magazine this issue, interviewing LaKeith Stanfield, the gifted, complicated actor whose movie career is taking off, following his eye-catching work on the TV show Atlanta, as well as filing a resonant essay for the Journal section, on the California wildfires, and what it feels like to live through them. Bhattacharya’s journalism has also appeared in The Observer and The Daily Telegraph.

He is the author of the book, Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy (Soft Skull).