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Casey Cep (Penguin Random House, $38)
“Man’s dominion over the earth might have been given to him in Genesis, but he began acting on it in earnest in the 19th century.” If you catch a familiar tone in that arch phrasing, it’s an indication of how well New Yorker writer Casey Cep has pulled this off.
is a book in three parts: the account of a 1970s murder trial in Alabama that obsessed Harper; the story of the lawyer at the heart of the case, who defended a preacher suspected of several murders – then helped set free the man who killed him; and a fascinating insight into the brilliant writer herself, who died in 2016 without completing another book.
