Departments 40 Letter from the Editor 44 In Honor 49 Manual
87 The Style Guy
236 Parting Shot
A list of cocktails—try a well-shaken (Mel) Gibson?—for celebs who
don't need another drink GQ INTELLIGENCE
91 The Punch List
From summer flicks to smart beach reads, the best in this month's culture
100 The Television Will Be Revolutionized Michael PATERNITI on how Al Jazeera English owned the Arab Spring
118 Game On! The Untold Secrets - and Furious Egos Behind the Rise of SportsCenter
An exclusive excerpt from the new
ESPN oral history BY JAMES ANDREW MILLER AND TOM SHALES
126 My Future Cancer
For many of us, bad news is coming. Here's the good news BY MARK HEALY
134 The Taste That Dare Not Speak Its Name
DEVIN FRIEDMAN shops at J.Crew, loves Chipotle, and enjoys (most) pop music. Yes,
it's middlebrow. Now get over it
138 The King of Pop-up
Ludo Lefebvre: the world's best chef with no restaurant BY BRETT MARTIN
146 The Most Important Room at the Office
Hint: It's the one with the hand dryers and urinals. But are you the stall-talking
weirdo or the book-toting introvert? We have all the answers
152 Your Boss Actually Is a Psycho
The guy at the top might really be as insane as he seems BY JON RONSON
162 The Book That Changed My Life
From the writers who changed ours. The ultimate, indispenSable reading list
173 Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance.
We haven't seen Gene Hackman on-screen in a while, but we damn sure haven't forgotten
him THE GO&A BY Michael HAINEY Features
178 This Is How You Start a War
• Four scenes—and a series of stunning photos—from the front
lines of the revolution in Libya BY SARAH A. TOPOL
190 Cover: Here Comes the Viking
True Blood star Alexander Skarsgard is ready for a bigger screen BY BRETT MARTIN
202 A Jones for Rashida
Rashida Jones has wit, smarts, a hit sitcom, and a new movie role as Zooey Deschanel's
lesbian lover. Life is good BY DEVIN GORDON
204 The Moment We Found Nirvana
An oral history of Nevermind—the album that rocked rock 'n' roll BY NATHANIEL
PENN
214 The Boss. Finally.
• Is Chicago ready for Rahm Epanuel? BY David MENDELL
216 The Good Seed
When a desperate mother couldn't save her son's life, she saved his sperm instead
BY DAN P. LEE FASHION
196 Groomed: A Not-So-Formal GQ Wedding Primer
Be the best (dressed) man at all those summer nuptials
210 The Power Suit
No lapels on this one—New Jersey Nets big man (and Kim Kardashian's boy
toy) Kris Humphries tries on some serious swimwear
222 Lost Highway
You may never road-trip down Route 66 in a restored Pontiac Trans Am, but if you
did, these clothes are exactly what you'd want to wear
