"The Key Political Novel of the Black Intellectual Life in New York in the Late 1930s"

"The authentication of the novel is 'scholarly gold,' said William J. Maxwell, the editor of 'Complete Poems: Claude McKay.' Its mocking portraits of Communists show McKay’s decisive break with Communism and his effort to turn his political evolution into art, said Mr. Maxwell, a professor of English and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis."

In The New York Times, Felicia R. Lee reports on the discovery at Columbia University of an unpublished novel by Claude McKay.