After I read R. F. Kuang’s debut novel The Poppy War in 2021, I knew I’d read anything else the author had published — a belief which has proven true, and has never led me astray even four years later ...

In Katabasis, RF Kuang (author of 2023’s brilliant Yellowface) sends her readers hurtling into an intricately constructed underworld, assembled from bits of Dante, Virgil and Goethe. Framed as both a ...

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 ...

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R.F. Kuang’s novel Yellowface was fantastic. It was engaging, smart, and tackled big issues like race, intellectual property, honesty, revenge and cultural appropriation all while offering a scathing ...

At the heart of Yellowface by R.F. Kuang is a brazen act of literary theft. June Hayward, a writer perpetually overshadowed ...

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