Nebula Award-winning author R.F. Kuang returns this week with a new fantasy novel. Pitched as Dante’s Inferno crossed with Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, Katabasis is a 560-page novel that takes place at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. R.F. Kuang's latest fantasy novel, "Katabasis," is her most mature to date and displays wry humor about academic hell, where the ...

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This post was updated Aug. 31 at 7:59 p.m. Warning: Spoilers for R.F. Kuang’s “Katabasis” ahead. “Katabasis” is an intriguing book for academics but possibly a challenging journey for casual readers.

Thoughts about the afterlife sparked R.F. Kuang’s newest novel, ‘Katabasis’ Not unlike 2022's “Babel,” “Katabasis,” out Tuesday, is a dark yet playful takeoff on academia — a setting the current Yale ...

The premise of R.F. Kuang’s sixth novel, “Katabasis,” sounds like a BookTok dream: a dark academia enemies-to-lovers fantasy that’s part Dante’s “Inferno” and part campus satire. The novel follows two ...

Author R. F. Kuang discussed her latest novel “Katabasis” with podcast host and moderator Greta Johnsen before a sold-out audience April 11 as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival at First United ...