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.

Author Rebecca Kuang and the protagonist of her new novel “Katabasis” are both Ph.D. students. After that, their paths mostly diverge. The book’s heroine, a Cambridge student named Alice Law, must ...

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 ...

In Greek mythology, ‘katabasis’ refers to a hero’s descent into the underworld. Dark academia is a sub-genre in fantasy fiction, often involving schools of magic, secret societies and evil experiments ...

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 ...

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 ...

Katabasis #1 is published by BlackBox Comics. It was written by Damien Becton, with art by Rodrigo Rocha, colors by Salvador ...

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 ...