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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And last month, Kuang published her sixth book, another academic fantasy novel called “Katabasis” (out now from Harper Voyager). Kuang has sustained this superhuman workload for a decade now, and you ...

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 ...