In “The Great White Bard,” Farah Karim-Cooper maintains that close attention to race, and racism, will only deepen engagement with the playwright’s canon.
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.
Now unjustly overlooked, “The Ha-Ha” is the prizewinning first novel by Jennifer Dawson, an accomplished mid-20th-century chronicler of women and madness.