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In honor of what would have been the 51st birthday of award-winning author David Foster Wallace, check out one of our favorite short essays of his, “The String Theory”. Originally published in the July 1996 issue of Esquire, the piece is “an obsessive inquiry (with footnotes) into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.”

Read the full text here.