[papa-whisky]

The essay that the book takes its title from is particularly relevant to this discussion and freely available online: https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david...

(As an aside, I'm surprised to see this in Esquire, do they still publish writing like this or was it a very different magazine "back in the day"?)

[daseiner1]

Can’t comment on the current state of Esquire, but it certainly was “legit” in the past. I’ll take this opportunity to promote the classic Esquire piece “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has...

[duck]

Just to add, they have a really great archive site: https://classic.esquire.com/

[NaOH]

And the person in charge of Esquire Classic has a site of good long-form journalism that predates the internet.

http://www.thestacksreader.com