Review of Amiable with Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem

Totalitarianism and the New Negro Vision of the Modern World

By William J. Maxwell

The most extraordinary thing about Amiable is that it was ever rescued from hiding. As the novel’s scrupulous and publicity-savvy editors suggest, “the discovery of an unpublished and previously unknown manuscript by a major modern writer is a rare occurrence.”