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Rebecca F. Kuang
@rfkuang.bsky.social
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author, marshall scholar, phd @ Yale
sinophone + asian american lit
BABEL, YELLOWFACE, etc...
https://linktr.ee/kuangrf
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libraryreads.bsky.social
Next on the LibraryReads August 2025 Hall of Fame list is KATABASIS by R. F. Kuang! @librarylovefest.bsky.social
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July 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jul 11
So I know that I am super late to this, but I just finished reading Babel by @rfkuang.bsky.social, and it's one hell of a book.
July 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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distopolis.bsky.social
La Editorial Hidra anuncia para el 1 de septiembre la publicación de la novela CATÁBASIS de R.F. Kuang @rfkuang.bsky.social, una historia a medio camino entre el LA DIVINA COMEDIA de Dante y PIRANESI de Susanna Clarke:
t.co/PxVkRwZrbj #Catábasis #RebeccaFKuang #Katabasis
June 23, 2025 at 6:14 AM
rfkuang.bsky.social
i'm going on tour in the US/UK/Canada for KATABAISS in late August/September ❤️ all the dates, locations, and ticket links are up now: smarturl.it/2F5F7c
May 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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heidefranck.bsky.social
Noch basteln wir an der Übersetzung, Alexandra Jordan und ich 😊 Und das Buch ist vollgepackt mit witzigen Zitaten, klugen Anspielungen, wissenswerten Haupt- und Nebensächlichkeiten. Wie man‘s kennt von @rfkuang.bsky.social 😌🤓
eichbornverlag.bsky.social Eichborn Verlag @eichbornverlag.bsky.social · Mar 14
Wir bereiten da gerade was vor.
Das Buch kann ab sofort in den Buchhandlungen eures Vertrauens vorbestellt werden.
March 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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alwaystheself.bsky.social
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
www.insidehighered.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
rfkuang.bsky.social
Lauren is wonderful. Querying authors, note:
laurenbajek.bsky.social Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · Feb 12
It's #MSWL day! I represent adult SF, fantasy, and horror; also open to mainstream fiction with genre elements, or a deeply surreal/speculative flavor. This year, I hope to expand into romance and mystery, esp. with speculative elements. I like books to be smart, fun, and weird.

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February 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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thalesdisciple.bsky.social
This is a recommendation for #MathSky and anyone else who likes to read or works in academia.

R. F. Kuang's Katabasis comes out this August. The cover has just been revealed. See that Penrose staircase? There will be much more math inside, I promise. Along with searing commentary and a great story.
Cover of the novel Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. View is of a square tower, looking down from above. The bottom of the tower recedes into the distance, suggesting the infinity of a Sisyphean task. An impossible Penrose staircase goes around the top of the tower. Inside more staircases are visible, possibly also Penrose staircases; maybe they're all the same staircase and the distinction is an illusion. One figure, apparently female, runs along the staircase at the top. Another figure, apparently male, appears to be one level lower and is writing mathematical equations on an endless row of blackboards. Pages blow off of a stack of papers that is placed on the top of the tower, suggesting a thesis that is both unfinished and about to be lost. The pages encircle the tower and emerge towards the viewer, inviting—urging even—a deeper exploration into this hellish vision of academia.
February 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"Rejecting identitarianism...means abandoning the neoliberal dream of impeccably multicolored boardrooms. But it does not mean retreating into a tone-deaf class-only politics."

myself and @enzoreds.bsky.social for @journalspectre.bsky.social.
spectrejournal.com/whats-new-ab...
What’s New About Woke Racial Capitalism (and What Isn’t) – Spectre Journal
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Enzo Rossi explain how "woke" racial capitalism reveals contradictory tendencies in the material structure of capitalism and its ideological superstructure.
spectrejournal.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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harvardbookstore.bsky.social
Congrats to @rfkuang.bsky.social on another amazing release! Pre-order your copy of this stunning edition of "Katabasis" (out 8/2025) from our website and have it signed or personalized 🖋️ www.harvard.com/rf-kuang-sig...
February 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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leesnelgrove.bsky.social
I had the privilege to ask some questions of @rfkuang.bsky.social at Richland Library for our Off Book series. I particularly love the answer about how different languages mark the passing with time. youtu.be/DDeBqV-U0V8?...
OFF BOOK: Rebecca F Kuang
YouTube video by Richland Library
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January 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Brand Management: International Bestsellers and the Death of the Author, Again
muse.jhu.edu
December 19, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
"Where 'Shanghailanders' spins outwards across time and space, 'Tiananmen Square' enters squarely into a saturated discourse about one particular time and place: Tiananmen Square, June 1989." Rebecca Kuang reviews "Tiananmen Square" and "Shanghailanders." lareviewofbooks.org/article/from...
From the Pudong Airport to Tiananmen Square | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rebecca F. Kuang reviews Lai Wen’s “Tiananmen Square” and Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders.”
lareviewofbooks.org
December 10, 2024 at 10:44 PM
rfkuang.bsky.social
i wrote about Juli Min's SHANGHAILANDERS and Lai Wen's TIANANMEN SQUARE, two debut novels from this past year that i enjoyed greatly

lareviewofbooks.org/article/from...
From the Pudong Airport to Tiananmen Square | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rebecca F. Kuang reviews Lai Wen’s “Tiananmen Square” and Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders.”
lareviewofbooks.org
December 8, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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jwassers.bsky.social
Just up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, an engaging essay on two novels, Shanghailanders and Tiananmen Square, reviewed astutely by @rfkuang.bsky.social
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From the Pudong Airport to Tiananmen Square | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rebecca F. Kuang reviews Lai Wen’s “Tiananmen Square” and Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders.”
lareviewofbooks.org
December 6, 2024 at 4:06 PM
rfkuang.bsky.social
i have two more public events upcoming this year, one in NOLA and one in NYC. tickets and more event details linked here, and please excuse the NOLA graphic for being so extra - I did not make it but I am flattered 🙈

NOLA: kuangrf.eventbrite.com
NYC: firstgoldendaybnusq.eventbrite.com
B&N Union Square Five Golden Days of Author Signings Monday, December 16th at 3PM NOLA December 7th at 4:00 pm Baldwin & Co https://kuangrf.eventbrite.com
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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booksloth.bsky.social
Collector’s edition of THE POPPY WAR looks especially beautiful in the winter sun @rfkuang.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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tolkienmundo.bsky.social
Las palabras cuentan historias. En concreto, la historia de esas palabras -cómo empezaron a usarse y cómo su significado se transformó en lo que significan hoy- nos cuentan tanto o más sobre un pueblo que cualquier otro tipo de artefacto histórico.

Babel - @rfkuang.bsky.social
Art: Instagram: @mchernovart
November 20, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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lucywoolhouse.bsky.social
My Collector's Edition of @rfkuang.bsky.social's The Poppy War came yesterday - and it is STUNNING! I had completely forgotten it was illustrated so that was a lovely surprise. Fingers crossed they do the other two as well! #Booksky 📚💙
Front cover of the Collector's Edition of The Poppy War by RF Kuang - a girl is jumping in a battle stance with a sword in one hand and fire in the other. A phoenix flies above her and in the background is an army. The edges of the book are painted with flames. A hand drawn illustration of two armies facing off against each other. One is mounted, the other armed with bows and arrows. They are surrounded by mountains.
November 20, 2024 at 9:34 AM
rfkuang.bsky.social
gosh it is so nice to see so many of you over here! i used to really enjoy talking about writing craft, speculative fiction, asian american + sinophone literature over at that other place. we're back!
November 20, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
there are people content with their political line existing as a subculture, are indifferent or even hostile to attempts to move beyond that. maybe that's fine, even, but they certainly don't need your help! go where help is needed - and those will be places that are trying to accomplish something
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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celestepewter.bsky.social
C. Some of you have asked me about ballot curing!

1. Here's the official Harris/Walz curing phone bank:

events.democrats.org/event/684133/

2. But! There are also virtual events across the country: events.democrats.org?is_virtual=t...
Harris-Walz Voter Protection Phone Bank · The Democratic National Committee
Call likely Democratic voters in battleground states with potential issues with their registration or ballots to ensure their votes are fairly counted! Every day, we strategize directly with state vot...
events.democrats.org
November 5, 2024 at 2:42 PM
rfkuang.bsky.social
for reference today
November 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM