R.F. Kuang's latest fantasy novel, "Katabasis," is her most mature to date and displays wry humor about academic hell, where the stakes are very low. (Los Angeles Times illustration; book jacket from ...

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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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 ...