I've Never Seen This In a Mass Shooting Story Before

[View in Browser]( [Esquire]( [SHOP]( EXCLUSIVE [SUBSCRIBE]( [In All My Years of Covering Mass Shootings, I Had Never Seen This]( [In All My Years of Covering Mass Shootings, I Had Never Seen This]( Buried deeply in The New York Times' coverage of the latest unfortunate exercise in Second Amendment freedoms, this one in Maine, where the member of the well-regulated militia who allegedly watered the tree of liberty was still at large at this writing, was an anecdote reflecting a situation that I had not seen described in 11 years of dealing with mass murder by gunfire. This little item says a great deal about the state of the country in 2023. We can arm our people, but we can't house our people. We can load them up like a heavy-weapons platoon, but we can't arrange a one-room efficiency for the winter. [Read More](   [9 Luxury Pillows For the Best Sleep of Your Life]( [9 Luxury Pillows For the Best Sleep of Your Life]( Because your little head deserves it. [Read More]( [Rarely Seen Photos of Celebrities Off-Duty in the 1990s]( [Rarely Seen Photos of Celebrities Off-Duty in the 1990s]( Famous people in the '90s still looked rich and famous even when they weren't working. Well, most of them. [Read More](     [Peter Ash Lee's Guide to Toronto]( [Created by Esquire for Destination Toronto]( [Peter Ash Lee's Guide to Toronto]( The fashion photographer on the places, venues, and vibes that give this dynamic Canadian city a special place in his heart. [Read More](   [Every Man on Earth Should Be Wearing Wrangler Cowboy Cut Jeans]( [Every Man on Earth Should Be Wearing Wrangler Cowboy Cut Jeans]( No matter how much money I get, you won't catch me spending $300 on fashion-y selvedge jeans from Japan or Italy. That's my promise. We're talking about a garment that was made by the American working class, and made legendary by Middle America Silver Screen heroes like Marlon Brando and James Dean. Jeans should be tough, look good, and no one should be worried about making rent if they buy a pair. This is starting to sound like a campaign rally. I'm the John Fetterman of jeans over here. The Huey Long of long denim pants. And I'm about to put forward some legislation: The Jean New Deal. Part of my Jean New Deal is to get a solid pair of jeans on the ass of every American. Luckily, Wrangler's dirt-cheap Cowboy Cut is keeping our great denim tradition alive. [Read More]( [These Trench Coats Make Every Outfit Look Sharp]( [These Trench Coats Make Every Outfit Look Sharp]( The trench coat has come a long, long way in its century-plus of existence. The style was first developed before WWI, for British Army officers; during the war, soldiers in the trenches wore and popularized them. Thus, the trench coat. The 15 best ones are on the market are below, so whatever your taste and vibe, there's one for you. [Read More](     [Alternate text] [My Mom Couldn't Cook]( [My Mom Couldn't Cook]( My mother, Frances Junod, was not just a mother, not just a mom. She was a dame. She was a broad. She went through her entire life as a Harlowesque platinum blond, and I never knew the real color of her hair. She liked to go to the track, and she liked to go out to restaurants. She did not like to cook. That she did it anyway—that she had no choice—owed itself to generational expectations, and to the fact that if my mother was a doll, in the Runyonesque sense of the word, my father was a guy, a pinkie-ringed sharpie who spent many nights going to the New York City restaurants my mother longed to frequent, but who, on nights when he came home, loudly expected food on the table. So my mother put food on the table. She cooked three hundred nights a year. [Read More](   [ESQ 1933 Jewelry]( [LiveIntent Logo]( [AdChoices Logo]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice]( | [CA Notice at Collection]( Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2023 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779