Translation is the key to magic, as Kuang uses her genre to sharpen a historical investigation into colonisation, learning and power Welcome to Babel: the great Oxford translation institute in an ...

Fans of R.F. Kuang's highly acclaimed Babel are wondering why the Nebula-winning and best-selling novel was excluded from Hugo eligibility. Reading time 3 minutes The Hugo Awards are no stranger to ...

I don’t want to spoil the full plot for myself, though I know just enough about the book to want to dive in, thanks to Polygon’s Nicole Clark, who wrote a juicy snippet about Babel for that 2022 SFF ...

Everybody knows that the abolition of slavery didn’t stop humans being treated as commodities. In Babel, RF Kuang uses a fantastical version of mid-nineteenth-century Britain to explore the ways in ...

After spending five years in her award-winning world of “The Poppy War” trilogy, New Haven author R. F. Kuang is releasing a new fantasy novel exploring the magic of language. Kuang’s latest novel ...

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 ...

I was told that you can’t just name a novel “Babel” because then it would have to compete with the Bible for SEO results. I thought, “I think we can beat the Bible.” Rebecca F. Kuang doesn’t remember ...

The author of “Babel” likes to raise questions that bother her — ones she hopes will bother her readers too. By Elisabeth Egan At two different points during a 20-minute phone interview, R.F. Kuang ...