The 25 Best Podcasts of 2022 (So Far)

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE Impress your wife this holiday season. Here are 70 gifts she won't return. The 25 Best Podcasts of 2022 (So Far) It's hard to believe there was a time when the Podcasts app was just another unused automatic download on our Apple devices, doomed to collect digital dust on our home screens. Nowadays, there's a high chance you don't just have a favorite podcast or two—but rather a go-to series to stream for your every craving, like sports, true crime, and sex. Read More 65 Can't-Miss Gifts For Any Man in Your Life Holiday shopping doesn't have to be hard—our top gifts prove it. Read More Amazon Has Some Seriously Impressive Home Workout Equipment On Sale Skip that pricey monthly membership and set yourself up for success at home. Read More Presented by The Botanist Esquire's Best New Restaurants in America, 2022 For our 40th edition of this list, we're celebrating the 40 mightiest new establishments—from Maine to California—that represent what it means to dine well in the U.S. right now. Read More The U.S. Men's National Team Must Have No Fear at the World Cup The Americans have arrived, but they're locked out. In the lobby of the St. David's Performance Center in Austin, Texas, there's a bright-green couch and a coffee table and a front desk where an employee sits, back straight and typing. Through the sweeping glass front wall, the desk assistant and I watch a bus pull up outside. After a moment, the players come striding out in that athlete's walk, the glide in slide sandals both nonchalant and studied. They coast toward the building only to be stiffed at the entrance. A few faces peer sheepishly through the glass, outside looking in. There's a tug or two on the handle, a push—nothing. The door won't open. Read More The Best At-Home Projectors According to Esquire Editors I never thought the day would come where the differences between TVs and projectors would feel so slim—both physically and figuratively. At-home projectors in 2022 are nothing like the clunky ones like your teacher rolled out on a cart. They are compact, fast powerhouses that give you an at-home theater experience with remarkable ease. Read More My Stalker Several years ago, after I'd made a concerted effort to die, I decided to keep living, and not only to keep living but to live well, to live happily, and to try to avoid trying to die. I tried all sorts of ways of living—alone, and with others, and alone but with strangers—but nothing really seemed right until I'd found the practice of Life Rotating. It was only after I began Life Rotating that I felt I could survive. Read More Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice/Notice at Collection esquire.com ©2022 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019

Rob Delaney Knows Grief—and Rage

People won't always think of me as the dad whose child died. They think of me that way now, maybe. But that won't last forever. And then one day when they don't, I'll wonder, Why aren't they thinking of me that way anymore?

We were looking for an old cell phone charger the other day, and my oldest son found one of Henry's tracheostomy tubes. This custom-made, state-of-the-art thing, exactly made for his little throat. It was like a little magician had poofed into the room. I thought, Look at that thing that tortured us, tortured him, but also helped him breathe. It was a heavy moment. And I loved it.

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE Impress your wife this holiday season. Here are 70 gifts she won't return. What I've Learned: Rob Delaney People won't always think of me as the dad whose child died. They think of me that way now, maybe. But that won't last forever. And then one day when they don't, I'll wonder, Why aren't they thinking of me that way anymore? We were looking for an old cell phone charger the other day, and my oldest son found one of Henry's tracheostomy tubes. This custom-made, state-of-the-art thing, exactly made for his little throat. It was like a little magician had poofed into the room. I thought, Look at that thing that tortured us, tortured him, but also helped him breathe. It was a heavy moment. And I loved it. Read More The Oath Keepers May Be Going to Jail, but the Anger that Moved Them Remains Free On the plus side, this may enable the Justice Department to move up the Jan. 6 food chain. Read More The Best Electric Toothbrush Is Reasonably Priced and Ridiculously Easy to Maintain How am I just learning about the hum? Read More The Esquire Editors' 10 Favorite Gifts of the Year Gift giving season is in full swing, and while that means you'll hopefully receive a few good presents yourself, it also means you can no longer ignore the undeniable truth that you have to start holiday shopping. Not sure where to start? Well you're in luck, because here at Esquire, we are gift-giving pros. Read More The Best Furniture and Home Sales Happening Post-Cyber Monday There's a CB2 sofa, a Casper mattress, and even a customizable pillow all on discount. Read More The U.S.'s Victory Over Iran Was Exciting as Hell—And Just the Beginning The Americans beat Iran to book a place in the World Cup knockout rounds. Can they give the mighty Dutch a game in the Round of 16? Read More "Talk Dirty To Me": A Bedroom Challenge "Talk dirty to me," Karen whispered, her brown eyes on the bar table between us. Aside from being articulate, eccentric, and funny, she was a stone knockout; for the last month, I'd been scrambling just to feel worthy. Now she'd upped the ante. "Come on," she repeated with a grin. "Say something dirty." Ooh, I said to myself, this is gonna be great. I've never done it, but I bet I'm good at it. I quickly thought through some naughty openers—discarded one as crassly vulgar, tried on another, almost blurted out something smarmy. And still she was waiting—holding my hand, smiling. Read More Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice/Notice at Collection esquire.com ©2022 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019