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