The brackets have been filled and the NCAA basketball tournament is underway. Now Esquire has added to the fun with the Sexiest Woman Alive Madness tournament. Esquire will name its annual SWA in November, but it’s also letting readers choose their own champion. The 64-woman field is divided into four sections (we list the top [...]

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She was sexy in “The Last Days of Disco” in 1998, and she’s still sexy a decade later. Kate Beckinsale, 36, who has found new fame playing a vampire in “Underworld,” is Esquire’s bold choice for Sexiest Woman Alive in 2009. The video is pretty compelling evidence.
“If you’re any kind of a human, you know [...]

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Esquire’s collector’s edition 75th anniversary issue is out and getting a lot of buzz for its “world’s first E-Ink cover” (on limited copies). But there’s plenty to talk about and read inside, notably its list of “The 75 Most Influential People of the 21th Century.” Esquire says “it decided to look forward, at the people [...]

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Esquire helped pioneer New Journalism in the 1960s with writers Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe. The magazine continues the tradition with “The Last Days of Heath Ledger” by Lisa Taddeo in the April issue, on newsstands next week. “Days,” written in the first person as if it were Ledger’s own diary, is [...]

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