Contributors

Esquire editor-at-large RICHARD BENSON is the author of two awardwinning works of non-fiction, The Farm and The Valley.

ED CAESAR, an Esquire editor-at-large, is also a contributing writer to The New Yorker. He publishes his new book, The Moth and The Mountain, this November.

Photographer and film-maker ANTON CORBIJN is renowned for his era-defining pictures of post-punk rock bands — Joy Division, U2, Depeche Mode — as well as for his movies Control (2007), about Ian Curtis; The American (2010), with George Clooney; and Life (2015), with Robert Pattinson.

STUART EVERS, author of the collection Ten Stories about Smoking and, more recently, the novel The Blind Light, makes his Esquire debut with “Borderland”, a short story.

SIMON GARFIELD is the author of books about, among other things, the colour mauve (Mauve), the sport of wrestling (The Wrestling), BBC Radio 1(The Nation’s Favourite), the male midlife crisis as revealed through stamp collecting (The Error World), fonts (Just My Type) and maps (On the Map).

At various times, MICHAEL HOLDEN has been a lad’s mag legend, a Guardian columnist, a Hollywood screenwriter and a painter and decorator.

Award-winning journalist and author TIM LEWIS is an Esquire editor-atlarge and a features writer for The Observer.

PAUL MENDEZ made his Esquire debut this summer in our Fiction Issue, with his story “The Hurley”. His debut novel, Rainbow Milk, was published earlier this year.

Best known for his portrayal of Prince Charles on the Netflix show The Crown, which returns in November, JOSH O’CONNOR is an awardwinning actor and former Esquire cover star.

Photographer RUTH OSSAI has worked for Kenzo, Nike and Rihanna’s Fenty label.

WILL SELF is one of Britain’s leading novelists and literary journalists, and an Esquire editor-at-large. His most recent book is a memoir, Will.

Stylist JAMES SLEAFORD is the former fashion director of French GQ and a frequent contributor to Esquire and Mr Porter.