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REVEALED: Rebecca f kuang | Vintage Vibes

Thoughts about the afterlife sparked R.F. Kuang's newest novel, 'Katabasis'

Ruminating on the question of what happens after you die inspired R

The Independent UK

15 best new books to read in 2026, from Asako Yuzuki to Jennette McCurdy

Discover debut novelists and immersive page-turners from acclaimed authors

The Independent UK

Rebecca F Kuang: ‘I like to write to my friends in the style of Joan Didion’

The author of bestseller Yellowface on her agent’s fears about publishing the novel, the joys of a social media purge and being a workaholic who gets bored easily

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OPINION - Books of the year: The Evening Standard team choose their favourites

The Evening Standard columnist has infantilised Rupert Murdoch once before, in 2008’s The Man Who Owns the News, a magnificent biography that many in his family are still fuming about; so this fabulously gossipy book is a sequel of sorts, even if it does have a broader remit. And while…

Evening Standard

On my radar: Rebecca F Kuang’s cultural highlights

The bestselling author of Yellowface on prepping for Christopher Nolan films, a touring Mozart biopic and the swaggering young stars of Italian rock

The Guardian - UK

Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can’t We All Quit It?

It’s not entirely clear who it’s for and what its function should be in a rapidly changing literary ecosystem

The Walrus

#ReadWithMC Reviews 'Yellowface'

Here's what our book club readers thought about R.F. Kuang's latest novel.

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Rebecca F Kuang rejects idea authors should not write about other races

US novelist talks of ‘weird kind of identity politics in American publishing’ while at Hay festival

The Guardian - UK

Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang – a wickedly funny publishing thriller

In the follow-up to her bestseller, Babel, Kuang delivers a hugely entertaining account of a brazen literary heist

The Guardian - UK

Rebecca F Kuang: ‘Who has the right to tell a story? It’s the wrong question to ask’

The bestselling author of Babel and the the Poppy War trilogy on her new satire of the publishing industry and why she won’t write in the same genre twice

The Guardian - UK

Babel: the BookTok sensation that melds dark academia with a post-colonial critique

Set at Oxford in the 1800s, Rebecca F Kuang’s new novel is a magic-infused allegory for structural oppression – and social media can’t get enough of it

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