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Subject: Hubris in the LRB archive
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| Essays about Icarus, Boris Johnson, Cleopatra, Frankenstein, Kim Jong-un, you get the idea. | | | | View email online | | |  | | | | | | | |
|  | | | | | | | | | The Prehistory of Flight | | | | | | Jonathan Barnes | | | | | | Witches rode broomsticks; angels and devils swooped through space; Greek fables spoke of airborne heroes. And in fact Icarus and Phaethon found optimistic emulators in plenty. (1986) | | | | | | Read more | | | | | | | | | The London Review of Books: 12 issues for just £12 | | | | | | Subscribe now | | | | | | | | | Sinking Giggling into the Sea | | | | | | Jonathan Coe | | | | | | Boris Johnson has become his own satirist: safe, above all, in the knowledge that the best way to make sure the satire aimed at you is gentle and unchallenging is to create it yourself. (2013) | | | | | | Read more | | | | | | | | | ADVERTISEMENT | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Asp for Zenobia | | | | | | Mary Beard | | | | | | Even for the most hard-headed of historians, the real Cleopatra is impossible to extricate from her Roman myth – or, for that matter, from the complicated and loaded myths of gender, passion, desire and transgression woven by the love poets. (2003) | | | | | | Read more | | | | | | | | | New World Chaos | | | | | | Rodric Braithwaite | | | | | | What has now happened to the European vision seems to justify Mark Mazower's contention that such endeavours are doomed first to hubris and then to failure. (2013) | | | | | | Read more | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Versatile Monster | | | | | | Marilyn Butler | | | | | | 'Supremely frightful,' declares Mary Shelley's introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, 'would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.' (1988) | | | | | | Read more | | | | | | | | | A Murderous History of Korea | | | | | | Bruce Cumings | | | | | | How does a puffed-up, vainglorious narcissist, whose every other word may well be a lie (that applies to both of them, Trump and Kim Jong-un), come not only to hold the peace of the world in his hands but perhaps the future of the planet? (2017) | | | | | | Read more | | | | | | | |
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