Alan Bold, ‘Scientists who changed the Rules’, April 7, 1978, Tribune, Volume 42, Issue 14. p. 6.

Recent review of newly published paperbacks, which features a positive review of The Devil Finds Work:

‘Finally, a most original look at the movies makes James Baldwin’s The Devil Finds Work (Corgi, 75p) essential reading for those who tend to take their entertainment for granted. Like most of us Baldwin was bought up on American films but he was in a special position — as an articulate black outsider – to assess their pernicious influence on popular consciousness. The movies reflect, in Baldwin’s eyes, not the American dream but the American nightmare, whereby banality is transformed into a national virtue’.