Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But ...
Academia is a sort of hell in itself, at least as presented in R.F. Kuang’s “Katabasis” — quite literally meaning “descent” in Greek mythology. Released Aug. 26 by Kuang, a New York Times bestselling ...
‘Katabasis’: RF Kuang’s new novel is an exposé of institutions and students in all their manic glory
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
R.F. Kuang has never shied away from ambitious storytelling. From the imperial critique of “Babel” to the literary satire of “Yellowface,” her novels combine social insight with an inventive narrative ...
A graduate student must venture into the underworld to save the professor she accidentally killed in this bold new novel. By Kiersten White Kiersten White is the author of dozens of books, including ...
Hace unas semanas en este mismo espacio escribí sobre R.F. Kuang, una joven autora sino-americana que escribe como alma que lleva el diablo. En menos de diez años Kuang ha publicado una trilogía de ...
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek.The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.But the ...
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