Simon Leys

Simon Leys is the author of a dozen books, mostly on Chinese art, culture, and politics. His latest work is The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story. (December 2007)

From the Review

December 20, 2007: 'Ravished by Oranges'

Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man by Jonathan D. Spence

December 17, 1998: Giant

Victor Hugo: A Biography by Graham Robb

Shadows of a Hand: The Drawings of Victor Hugo by Ann Philbin, by Florian Rodari

November 19, 1998: Dostoevsky & 'Don Quixote' (letter)

June 11, 1998: The Imitation of Our Lord Don Quixote

March 26, 1998: The Archaeological Me

The Factory of Facts by Luc Sante

May 29, 1997: Mythmaker

André Malraux: A Biography by Curtis Cate

January 9, 1997: On Mother Teresa (letter)

June 20, 1996: The Calligraphic Spirit (letter)

April 18, 1996: One More Art

The Chinese Art of Writing by Jean François Billeter

January 12, 1995: Balzac's Genius & Other Paradoxes

Balzac: A Life by Graham Robb

April 21, 1994: Lawrence of Australia

October 11, 1990: The Art of Interpreting Nonexistent Inscriptions Written in Invisible Ink on a Blank Page

The Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921–1985: A Self Portrait by Laszlo Ladany, foreword by Robert Elegant

January 18, 1990: Changing Communism (letter)

October 12, 1989: After the Massacres

July 20, 1989: The Curse of the Man Who Could See the Little Fish at the Bottom of the Ocean

September 15, 1977: Chinese Shadows (letter)

June 9, 1977: Chinese Shadows: Bureaucracy, Happiness, History

May 26, 1977: Chinese Shadows

Books by Simon Leys

The Death of Napoleon (1991)
The Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics (1986)
Broken Images: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics (1979)
Chinese Shadows (1978)
The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (1977)