The Human Stain

Philip Roth

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Sil...

Night Train to the Stars: Beloved, Enigmatic Japanese Folk Tales

Kenji Miyazawa

Dark and whimsical tales from one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writersJapanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. ...