Daniel Riley is an editor and correspondent at GQ.
Select features, profiles, interviews, and essays by Daniel Riley
THE LATEST:
“Cover: Inside the Making of the New F1 Movie - Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Lewis Hamilton” - GQ - Summer 2025
“Cover: Novak Djokovic Beat Tennis. He Still Has Unfinished Business.” - GQ - February 2025
“‘Industry’ Creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay” - GQ - August 2024
“Cover: Lewis Hamilton Is Changing Lanes” - GQ - April 2024
“Scottie Scheffler” - GQ - March 2024
“Cover: How Cillian Murphy Cracked the Code” - GQ - March 2024
“Cover: Timothée Chalamet Goes Electric” (Chalamet Chapter 3) - GQ - November 2023
“Fast Times with Logan Sargeant” - GQ - May 2023
“Jeff Koons Goes to the Moon” - GQ - March 2023
“Cover: The Making of Max Verstappen” - GQ - December 2022
“Paul Dano’s Midlife Catharsis” - GQ - November 2022
“Can Mario Andretti Conquer F1…Again?” - GQ - August 2022
“Glories of the Island: Martha’s Vineyard” - The Golfer’s Journal - No. 19 - Spring 22
“Cover: The Metamorphosis of Robert Pattinson” - GQ - March 2022
“Cover: How Shohei Ohtani Made Baseball Fun Again” - GQ - February 2022
“The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Freediver” - GQ - October 2021
CRIME + POLITICS + WEDDINGS:
“America’s Best Wedding Band Will Be Back After a Short Break” - GQ - August 2020
“The Great High School Impostor” - GQ - May 2018
“The Great Cocaine Treasure Hunt” - GQ - April 2015
“The California Secession Movement’s Ecstatic Rise and Unexpected Collapse” - GQ - April 2017
FILM + TV:
“Cover: Inside the Making of the New F1 Movie - Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Lewis Hamilton” - GQ - Summer 2025
“‘Industry’ Creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay” - GQ - August 2024
“Cover: How Cillian Murphy Cracked the Code” - GQ - March 2024
“Cover: Timothée Chalamet Goes Electric” (Chalamet Chapter 3) - GQ - November 2023
“Paul Dano’s Midlife Catharsis” - GQ - November 2022
“Cover: The Metamorphosis of Robert Pattinson” - GQ - March 2022
“Joaquin Phoenix + Mike Mills” - GQ - November 2021
“Cover: The Making (and Remaking) of Timothée Chalamet” (Chalamet Chapter 2) - GQ - November 2020
“Cover: The Arrival of Timothée Chalamet” (Chalamet Chapter 1) - GQ - March 2018
“Ralph Fiennes Loosens Up” - GQ - April 2019
“Edward Norton Has Figured Some Things Out” - GQ - December 2019
“Cover: Moon Shot” (Ryan Gosling & Damien Chazelle) - GQ - November 2018
“Welcome to Hawley-Wood” (Noah Hawley) - GQ - December 2016
“Drama King” (Andy Cohen) - GQ - February 2013
“Cover: Ansel Elgort” - GQ - December 2014
“The Movie’s Fine, But You Should See The Trailer” - GQ - May 2015
“Where I Was From: The O.C., 10 Years Later” - GQ - August 2013
“Chadwick Boseman” - GQ - October 2014
“The Dirt on Aaron Paul” - GQ - August 2012
“Adam Driver” - GQ - December 2012
SPORTS:
“Cover: Novak Djokovic Beat Tennis. He Still Has Unfinished Business.” - GQ - February 2025
“Cover: Lewis Hamilton Is Changing Lanes” - GQ - April 2024
“Scottie Scheffler” - GQ - March 2024
“Cover: The Making of Max Verstappen” - GQ - December 2022
“Can Mario Andretti Conquer F1…Again?” - GQ - August 2022
“Cover: How Shohei Ohtani Made Baseball Fun Again” - GQ - February 2022
“The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Freediver” - GQ - October 2021
“The World’s Best Golfer Has Some Issues With Golf” (Brooks Koepka) - GQ - March 2020
“Will America Ever Catch The Formula One Bug?” - GQ - December 2011
“Cover: Cristiano Ronaldo and the Million-Dollar Day” - GQ - February 2016
“4th and Forever” (NFL Players on the Bubble) - GQ - November 2013
“Cover: Why Not Russell Westbrook?” - GQ - November 2016
“Jim Harbaugh Will Attack This Season With An Enthusiasm Unknown to Mankind” - GQ - September 2015
“Stephen Curry” - GQ - December 2015
“Vin Scully” - GQ - September 2011
“New Tiger, Old Stripes” - GQ - May 2012
“The MVP in Mom’s Basement” (Mike Trout) - GQ - April 2013
“The $240 Million Dollar Man” (Robinson Cano) - GQ - April 2014
“My Rookie Season” series with Stephen Curry - GQ - November 2009-April 2010
GOLF:
“Scottie Scheffler” - GQ - March 2024
“Glories of the Island: Martha’s Vineyard” - The Golfer’s Journal - No. 19 - Spring 2022
“Peter Beames: The Man Riding Clouds” - The Golfer’s Journal - No. 18 - Winter 2021
“The World’s Best Golfer Has Some Issues With Golf” (Brooks Koepka) - GQ - March 2020
“Letter of Recommendation: Golfing with Strangers” - The New York Times Magazine - September 2019
“The Punchbowl at Bandon Dunes” - The Wall Street Journal / The Future of Everything - December 2015
FOOD:
“Inside the Church of Chili’s” - GQ - July 2016
“Inside the Mind (and Mouth) of the Country’s Gutsiest Food Critic” (Jonathan Gold) - GQ - January 2016
“I'm Only Into Jean-Georges’s Early Work” - GQ - April 2014
ART:
“Jeff Koons Goes to the Moon” - GQ - March 2023
BOOKS:
“The 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century” - GQ - December 2021
“The Best Books and Films About Americans in Europe” - GQ - June 2020
“George Saunders” - GQ - February 2017
“22 Short Novels You Can Finish on Your Next Flight” - GQ - January 2017