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Writers

Casey Cep

Arts

Marilynne Robinson’s Essential American Stories

A profile of the author, who “looks to history not just for the origins of America’s ailments but for their remedy, too.”

Casey Cep New Yorker Sep 2020 25min Permalink

Arts

Harper Lee’s Forgotten True-Crime Project

Many people hoped that this would be the second book she’d publish.

Casey Cep New Yorker Mar 2015 10min Permalink

History

Emancipation

Frederick Douglass and the specter of slavery in Talbot County, Maryland.

Casey Cep Aeon Oct 2013 10min Permalink