Skip to main content
Esquire Classic
Issues
Topics
Contributors
Sign In
Subscribe
FICTION
The Riddle
Q: What’s a five-letter word meaning truth? A: Truth
March
1
1971
Barton Midwood
The Riddle
Barton Midwood
March
1
1971
View Article Pages
FICTION
The Riddle
Q: What’s a five-letter word meaning truth? A: Truth
March
1
1971
Barton Midwood
Sign In to read this article
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive
Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933
Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads!
85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors
More than 150,000 Images — beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom into every page
Unlimited Search and Browse
Bookmark all your favorites into custom Collections
Enjoy on Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile
View Full Issue
More From This Issue
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE
Further Conversations with Don Juan
March
1971
By
Carlos Castaneda
Articles
Roy
March
1971
By
J. Anthony Lukas
FICTION
Family Portrait
March
1971
By
James Reinbold
Articles
Charley Pride and the Chicken Ladies
March
1971
By
Melvin Shestack
Articles
The Mountain Versus Korczak Ziolkowski
March
1971
By
Roy Bongartz
Articles
The Thinking of Positive Power
March
1971
By
Garry Wills
Unlock every article Esquire has ever published.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
every timeless profile, interview, short story, feature, advertisement
, and much more!
More From This Issue
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE
Further Conversations with Don Juan
March
1971
By
Carlos Castaneda
Articles
Roy
March
1971
By
J. Anthony Lukas
FICTION
Family Portrait
March
1971
By
James Reinbold
Fiction
FICTION
The Indian with the Knife
NOVEMBER, 1946
By
ELI SEXTON
Fiction
An Old Man’s Winter Night
MARCH, 1959
By
JEAN ROSS JUSTICE
FICTION
No-Sided Professor
JANUARY, 1947
By
MARTIN GARDNER
Barton Midwood
FICTION
Automotive Immortality
OCTOBER 1967
By
Barton Midwood
FICTION
The Sheriff
NOVEMBER 1967
By
Barton Midwood
FICTION
FICTION
DECEMBER 1970
By
BARTON MIDWOOD
Fiction
FICTION
EL CAIMÁN
OCTOBER, 1956
By
HUGH FOSTER
FICTION
None But the Brave
JANUARY 1936
By
JOHN DOS PASSOS
FICTION
In the Big Town
APRIL 1936
By
MORLEY CALLAGHAN
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic
Everything Esquire has ever published