A September 2015 London Review of Books account of two biographies, which was linked in a recent LRB email, and which I finished reading yesterday, is illuminating and a little surprising. It addresses a book by David McCullough about Wilbur and Orville Wright and one by Ashlee Vance about Elon Musk. Both books had been published in England in May 2015, but that coincidence isn’t the reason John Lanchester and the LRB ch...