R.F. Kuang’s ‘Katabasis’ fizzles out despite fascinating premise
This review contains spoilers. The premise of R.F. Kuang’s sixth novel, “Katabasis,” sounds like a BookTok dream: a dark academia enemies-to-lovers fantasy that’s part Dante’s “Inferno” and part campus satire. The novel follows two alternative universe-Cambridge Ph.D. students, Alice and Peter, who must put aside their academic rivalry and journey through Hell to rescue their...| The Daily Northwestern
