Byliner Recommends

• What Is a Man?

  by Tom Chiarella + Follow

  Esquire | June 2011

  When you take away all the things we do because we are expected to — by our moms, say, or society — what's left?

• Butcher

  by Tom Chiarella + Follow

  Esquire | August 2008

  People trust a butcher. What he advises, they heed. What he recommends, they consume. The apron is part of it, yes -- the apron gives him power. But it's much more than the apron.

• The $20 Theory of the Universe

  by Tom Chiarella + Follow

  Esquire | March 2003

  There isn't much in the world that can't be had with the timely application of a simple twenty. Let loose with a roll of bills, our author confronts some of a great city's most formidable closed doors. Guess what he got from the one-hour-photo guy?