I had the privilege of attending R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis book tour in September. Rebecca F. Kuang is an award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author known for books such as The Poppy War , Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface . She has studied at Cambridge, which is the setting of Katabasis , as well as Oxford, the setting of Babel , and is currently pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages at Yale. Throughout the event, Kuang gave insights into her newest nove
