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Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur depicts a mercurial “man-child” with grandiose ambitions and an ego to match.

In a new book, Cara Fitzpatrick traces the rise of the movement to expand public funding for privately operated institutions.

Cat Bohannon’s book, “Eve,” looks at the way women’s bodies evolved, and how a focus on male subjects in science has left women “under-studied and under-cared for.”

“The Pole” explores romance, mortality and the tangled ways we communicate.

In her new memoir, “Exit Interview,” Kristi Coulter details her time working at the company, connecting her experience to the larger history of women’s employment struggles.

In her nifty “Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close,” Hannah Carlson unbuttons the politics behind who gets to hide their belongings, and where.

In “Crossings,” Ben Goldfarb shows that our dependence on highways and freeways is an environmental concern as well as a social one.

In her debut novel, the British actor elaborates on a story told to her by her grandmother.

Dissolving a marriage; raising a granddaughter.

New essay collections by Myriam Gurba, Jenn Shapland and Wang Xiaobo treat public and private subjects with invigorating conviction.