Simon Leys is the author of Chinese Shadows. Among his latest works are The Wreck of the Batavia, With Stendhal, and The Hall of Uselessness.
(February 2012)
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Postscript
February 9, 2012
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He Told the Truth About China’s Tyranny
February 9, 2012
No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems
by Liu Xiaobo, edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia, and with a foreword by Václav Havel
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Orwell & the Anarchists
September 29, 2011
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The Intimate Orwell
May 26, 2011
Diaries by George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison
George Orwell: A Life in Letters
selected and annotated by Peter Davison
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‘Ravished by Oranges’
December 20, 2007
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
by Jonathan D. Spence
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Giant
December 17, 1998
Victor Hugo: A Biography
by Graham Robb
Shadows of a Hand: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
by Ann Philbin, by Florian Rodari
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Dostoevsky & ‘Don Quixote’
November 19, 1998
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The Imitation of Our Lord Don Quixote
June 11, 1998
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The Archaeological Me
March 26, 1998
The Factory of Facts by Luc Sante
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Mythmaker
May 29, 1997
André Malraux: A Biography by Curtis Cate
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On Mother Teresa
January 9, 1997
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The Calligraphic Spirit
June 20, 1996
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One More Art
April 18, 1996
The Chinese Art of Writing by Jean François Billeter
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Balzac’s Genius & Other Paradoxes
January 12, 1995
Balzac: A Life by Graham Robb
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Lawrence of Australia
April 21, 1994
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The Art of Interpreting Nonexistent Inscriptions Written in Invisible Ink on a Blank Page
October 11, 1990
The Communist Party of China and Marxism, 19211985: A Self Portrait by Laszlo Ladany, foreword by Robert Elegant
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Changing Communism
January 18, 1990
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After the Massacres
October 12, 1989
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The Curse of the Man Who Could See the Little Fish at the Bottom of the Ocean
July 20, 1989
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Chinese Shadows
September 15, 1977
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Chinese Shadows: Bureaucracy, Happiness, History
June 9, 1977
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Chinese Shadows
May 26, 1977