Two New York newspapers (The New York Times and the New Yorker) are running stories about whether string theory is a theory of anything or not. Specifically, both articles are reviews of a couple of very critic books on string theory: * NOT EVEN WRONG : The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law. By Peter Woit.
* THE TROUBLE WITH PHYSICS The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next. ...