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...

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

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

http://www.thestacksreader.com