Tag: babel: or the necessity of violence

• Sharp Dark Academia Critique in M.L. Wang’s Blood Over Bright Haven

  Dark academia is hitting hard with this brilliant read, M.L. Wang’s Blood Over Bright Haven. Fans of R.F. Kuang’s Babel will love this intense, intriguing, insightful fantasy dark academia novel and all the elements of critique and social commentary it brings with it. Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic…

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  April 28, 2025

  adult fantasy, dark academia, science fiction

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• The Dark Academia Read of the 2020s is R.F. Kuang’s Babel

  Dark academia is a popular genre among young readers, and it has made a resurgence over the last decade or so. Babel, R.F. Kuang’s powerhouse of a novel published in 2022, is the dark academia book of the 2020s, sitting next to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and M.L Rio’s If We Were Villains of…

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  October 25, 2024

  dark academia, Historical Fiction

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