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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — At age 29, with several novels and millions of copies sold behind her, R.F. Kuang is just getting started. The author of “Yellowface” and the current bestseller “Katabasis,” Kuang has ...

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.

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 ...

If “Katabasis” author R.F. Kuang could time travel, she’d want to be 18 years old at a Beatles concert. Living in the '60s is an enticing idea for Kuang, who's known for fantasy books “Babel” and “The ...

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 ...

For Rebecca F. Kuang, who has had six bestsellers before the age of 30, an eternal afterlife of leisure scares her more than the idea of going to hell. “As a child, I was told when you die you go to ...