SOCIAL SCIENCES

Amiable with Big Teeth

by Claude McKay

Penguin Classics. Feb. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9780143107316. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781101628195. F

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One of the brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance, writer McKay produced a final 1941 novel that was first discovered in 2012 and finally published this year. The title describes communists in Harlem, like wolves in sheep's clothing.

Reviewed by Molly McArdle , Jan 01, 2017

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