When the devil moves in next door to Cooper Smith Cooper’s house, Cooper doesn’t know what to make of him at first. But when the unexpectedly neighborly Scratch helps the unemployed actuary find a job at a local insurance company with the help of some inside information into the activities of Death, Cooper decides the old devil might not be so...

A flower who prostitutes herself, a physicist who graphs his aspirations, a devil who goes to confession, a goat on a bender, a bee, a woman who marries a man she barely notices -- the fourteen stories in The Day Immanuel Kant was Late spread in all directions, from intimate family studies across generations to mysticism and philosophical fables...