When RF Kuang was doing research for her latest novel, Katabasis, she threw a paradox party. She was developing a system of “analytic magick” for the fantasy world she was creating, and so she invited ...

On Oct. 10, author R. F. Kuang joined the Tufts community for a discussion on writing, identity and the questions that shape her fiction. Hosted by the Asian American Center, the event drew a full ...

The genre-cum-aesthetic of “Dark Academia”, once familiar only to Tumblr users in the 2010s, has garnered a wider fanbase since the pandemic. Its trademark features include candle-lit libraries that ...

A bestselling author is facing a flurry of anger from fans after advance copies of her upcoming novel identified a character as Israeli, a move that her critics say advances “normalization” of a ...

The last time Rebecca F. Kuang (SFS ’18) was in the ICC auditorium, she was a freshman taking an Economics exam. Eight years later, she’s giving a talk as a 26-year-old New York Times bestselling ...

Smart and ruthless, Alice Law is on the verge of defending her PhD dissertation on analytic magic and making it to the top of the proverbial ivory tower of academia. Only condition: she has to go ...

The narrative is designed as a quest to the ‘Underworld’ undertaken by two bright minds in the discipline of ‘analytic magick’ at Cambridge: Alice Law and Peter Murdoch. The two protagonists are on a ...

The bestselling author’s sixth novel is far from perfect, but this journey into the underworld is delivered with heretical glee The more academia has broken your heart, the more you’ll love RF Kuang’s ...

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