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Title: Roth's not so bad, when he's not talking about sex
Review: The same way that The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible help us understand witch-hunts, The Human Stain is Philip Roth's way of making sense of the absurdity of the Clinton impeachment. So that no one misses the point, he sets the novel in 1998. His story is one of a distinguished, soon-to-retire college professor who is unjustly accused of racism. A novel like this reminds us that the motivations and the life histories of the accused and the accusers are always more complicated than we want to believe.
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