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With these magnificent craft, the Norse searched far and wide for goods they couldn't get at home: silk, glass, sword-quality steel, raw silver and silver coins that they could melt down and rework. In return they offered furs, grindstones, Baltic amber, walrus ivory, walrus hides and iron...
Short of homicide, how far will a man go to escape his background and reinvent himself as an unaffiliated member of the human race? If you are Coleman Silk, the gifted self-liberator in Philip Roth's new novel, The Human Stain (Houghton Mifflin; 368 pages; $26), you first tell your fiance that your widowed mother is dead when she is not. Then you tell your mother that she will never be allowed to see her future grandchildren...
...gets better, or worse, depending on your tolerance for this kind of biting humor. "You come to the railroad station in New York and you sit on the bench in the waiting room," Silk tells his mom. "At eleven twenty-five a.m., I'll walk by with my kids in their Sunday best. That'll be my birthday present...
...Seneca member in slim black pants and a raspberry-colored silk top circulates around the tables, discretely replenishing the cheese platters with Ritz crackers...
...Lemieux, visiting artist and lecturer in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department, teaches a course on silk-screening...