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With memberships down, equipment sales in a hole and sports like cycling taking over, Tim Lewis asks whether the “good walk spoiled” can be resuscitated as a participatory sport, or is it the end of the fairway for golf?

Yes, golf sucks. But this is one man's story on how he became addicted to the most impossible, frustrating, time-consuming - but rewarding - game on Earth.

Marion “Suge” Knight is in jail in Los Angeles awaiting trial for murder. Once the most powerful, most feared man in hip-hop, today Knight is barely a shadow of his former self. If the now desperately ill co-founder and former CEO of gangsta rap label Death Row is convicted, he will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. At the courtroom, Esquire’s US correspondent Sanjiv Bhattacharya talks to lawyers, friends, foes and family members and wonders if Suge might be a victim of his own reputation as much as circumstance. Is he really the cold-blooded thug of legend, or just a man whose hype got the better of him?

American author James Salter, died on Friday in Sag Harbor, New York. He was 90. In 2013, Esquire editor Alex Bilmes met the then 87-year-old to discuss his extraordinary life

Crime novelist Peter James visits the notorious psychiatric ward

After 15 years in Los Angeles, Esquire’s Anglo-Indian-in-America, Sanjiv Bhattacharya, has become our American in America. And he’s got the certificate to prove it. Is he one of them now? Or will he always be one of us? Can he be both? Is he neither? There’s nothing like pledging allegiance to make a man question whose side he’s on

Hard to believe in our hyper-connected world, but there was a time when solitude was part of the every day human experience. On the cusp of 30, Esquire's Sam Parker realised he couldn’t remember the last time he’d been truly alone – if, indeed, he ever had. How would he cope with seven days in the wild, cut-off from humanity, and without even his Instagram feed for company?

Former inmate Noel 'Razor' Smith examines the legacy of the most serious prison riot in British history

Meeting the people who put Lambo back on the map

Esquire's editor-at-large joins his son on a musical odyssey