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 ...

"On the first day of class, when she ought to have been lecturing undergraduates about the dangers of using the Cartesian severance spell to revise without pee breaks, Alice Law set out to rescue her ...

R.F. Kuang’s fantasy novel “Katabasis” centers around Alice and Peter, two graduate students who study magic at Cambridge University. When their thesis advisor dies, they decide to go to hell to ...

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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. Author R.F. Kuang poses for a portrait near Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles ...

Amazon MGM Studios had optioned the TV rights for Katabasis and describes the adaptation as "a dark academia fantasy in which two graduate students in Magick must put aside their rivalry and journey ...

The genre-cum-aesthetic of “Dark Academia”, once familiar only to Tumblr users in the 2010s, has garnered a wider fanbase since the pandemic. Its trademark features include candle-lit libraries that ...

Depending on where you hang out on the internet, the novelist R.F. Kuang is either an inescapable juggernaut (BookTok, YouTube, Reddit) or a relative unknown—her most celebrated book, 2022’s Babel, ...

When I learned R.F. Kuang was taking readers to hell in her newest book, I groaned. Haven’t we done this enough? I’m not just talking about Orpheus retrieving Eurydice, Dante’s “Inferno” and Virgil’s ...