In “The Other Profile,” a struggling grad school dropout starts to work for, and then becomes obsessed with and consumed by, a semi-famous content creator.
Even in countries where homophobia is pervasive and same-sex relationships are illegal, authors are pushing boundaries, finding an audience and winning awards.
Two new books about the platform chronicle its leadership under first Jack Dorsey and now Elon Musk, portraying a site reeling from user disaffection and gross mismanagement.
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