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Getting into character

What we wear now • Esquire celebrates stylish men

The good doctor • Ben Whishaw plays a medic under pressure in the BBC’s adaptation of Adam Kay’s bestselling memoir, This is Going to Hurt

Good sports • Right on time for the Commonwealth Games, a new watch from Longines

Future Prep • Old Prep too old for you? New Prep not new enough? Welcome to a boundary breaking new twist on collegiate style

Around the grounds • A new exhibition celebrates the architecture of the beautiful game

Candy crush • It’s going to be a big year for biscuits

‘Doctors who play tennis, on mushrooms’ • Can Casablanca’s Charaf Tajer hold on to the silliness?

2022 vision • Google Glass was a joke, but Big Tech still believes in smart-specs

Battery farming • An electric Land Rover for the cowshed and a Cowshed

See you at the Yards • A high-end new eating and shopping zone aims to revitalise London retail and hospitality, over a G&T or two

Something in the way • Director Matt Reeves’s Batman reboot is inspired by 1970s cinema, 1980s comic books and… Nirvana

Back to black • Summer tailoring goes dark

Ice cold • Is your cool box as hot as a Yeti?

Boys keep swinging • Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s pugilistic ‘bromance’ becomes a punchy new play

Fired up • At London’s hottest new restaurant, a Mexican superchef offers the history of her nation on a plate

What goes up • Long shorts return

Introducing the Esquire Edit • Esquire is proud to present the fourth edition of the Esquire Edit, our capsule collection of wardrobe essentials made in collaboration with Liberty, and some of our favourite menswear brands. This year, the collection will be available in-store and online at Liberty, as well as the brands’ respective websites and stores

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A TABLE FOR TWO

OJ RUINED MY HOLIDAY

UNDER THE RADAR • As the tortured creator of the atomic bomb in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the unassuming Irish actor Cillian Murphy is shortly to embark on his starriest film role to date. But first, there is the bruising business of bidding farewell — perhaps forever (perhaps, tantalisingly, not?) — to another tormented man of violence: the terrifying Tommy Shelby, of Peaky Blinders. At home in Dublin, on the eve of the ‘dark as fuck’ final series, Murphy reflects on his years as one of TV’s greatestever gangsters and the tragic loss of his co-star, the ‘magnificent’ Helen McCrory

LEWK AGAIN • A new show at the V&A in London considers men’s fashion then and now, and what it tells us about shifting ideas of masculinity, from the classical to the contemporary

The Beauty in the Bath • Her body was found at her home on Buffs Lane, Heswall, on 9 October 1983. She had been strangled and placed, face down, in a bath of water. She was naked, apart from her jewels. Her car had been stolen and dumped a few miles away, on the Chester High Road. A few days later, a stocking mask holding more of her jewellery was found in a phone box in Romiley, a village 50 miles away. Cynthia Bolshaw was 50 when she was murdered. A divorced mother of one, she worked at the Dior counter at Browns of Chester. Perhaps inevitably, the case became known as the “Beauty in the...