An NYRB Classics OriginalSimon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization.
A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousness, and bite about European art, literature, history, and politics and is an unflinching observer of the way we live now.
The Hall of Uselessness is the most extensive collection of Leys’s essays to.
The New York Review Of Books, Inc Hall of uselessness, paperback/simon leys
