Full name: The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays

Author: Simon Leys Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Essays, History Cultures: China, Australia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781590176207 9781863955324 1590176200 1863955321

Collects essays about such wide-ranging topics as the Cambodian genocide, Zhou Enlai, and Christopher Hitchins. Similar books: On grief and reason by Joseph Brodsky The Meaning of Recognition by Clive James Homage To Daniel Shays by Gore Vidal The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf Against Joie de Vivre by Phillip Lopate Tests of Time by William H. Gass Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee Every Force Evolves a Form by Guy Davenport Reliable Essays by Clive James Time Bites by Doris Lessing Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith Against Everything by Mark Greif Even As We Speak by Clive James Second Drafts of History by Lance Morrow Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin Facing Unpleasant Facts by George Orwell The Last Empire by Gore Vidal In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams