R.F. Kuang's "Babel" Will Break Your Heart, and You Should Read It Immediately
Even if dark academia is not your thing
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6 min readJan 30, 2023
Babel is not my kind of book; I knew this going into it. I had already read R.F. Kuang's The Poppy War a couple of months ago, a fantasy novel rife with complicated politics, elaborate battle strategies, and multitudes of death. Despite the masterful writing, it was…
