Reading “Going Infinite,” Michael Lewis’s strange new book about the disgraced crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, you soon get the sense that Lewis felt unusually flummoxed by his material.

Toward the end of Michael Lewis’s seductive new book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon,” about the epic collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its enigmatic ...

With his new book about the crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried — and new questions about his old work — the famously charmed writer finds himself under a microscope.