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In “The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived,” Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman show how Oedipal battles fueled the company’s technological triumphs in the 1960s and beyond.

In “The Gunfighters,” the journalist Bryan Burrough offers a lively look at the legends and myths of the Wild West.

In “The Halt During the Chase,” by Rosemary Tonks — first published in 1972, and newly reissued — a young woman goes in search of herself.

“The Hammer” offers portraits of organizing efforts from around the country at a time when the future of union power has reached an inflection point.

Naoise Dolan’s “The Happy Couple” follows 20-something Dubliners hurtling toward the altar, stubbornly clinging to their self-delusions that this is what they want.

James Van Der Zee’s baroque, carefully composed funeral home photos illuminate century-old ideals of mourning and ritual in Black culture.

In “The Haves and Have-Yachts,” the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos presents an urbane set of profiles in excess.

In “The Heart-Shaped Tin,” the British food writer Bee Wilson offers a bittersweet ode to the everyday tools we use in the kitchen, along with stories great and small.

“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” opens with the discovery of a skeleton in a well, and then flashes back to explore its connection to a town’s Black, Jewish and immigrant history.

In “The Hidden Globe,” the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines the rise of spaces where wealthy countries and companies bend rules and regulations to their advantage.