Donna Seaman writes: “For Rebecca F. Kuang, academia is more than a fictional setting. Her fourth book, the historical dark-academia fantasy Babel: An Arcane History, was followed by Yellowface, a lacerating critique of racism in modern publishing. Kuang returns to both fantasy and higher education in Katabasis (August, HarperCollins), a tale of two students in Cambridge’s Department of Analytical Magick who journey to hell in search of their famed, feared, and abruptly deceased advisor, Professor Grimes. American Libraries spoke with Kuang about academia, the afterlife, and the beauty of libraries.”