![]() We are brought into Babel’s world from the very first page. Kuang forces us to walk the fine line between reality and the speculative, and we grow more and more unsettled as Babel’s world begins to bleed into ours. Based upon the history of British colonialism, diasporic identity, the power of language, and Kuang’s own experiences with racism at Oxford, Babel manages to build a magical world of its own while still being grounded in the very real effects institutions based in white supremacy have on marginalized bodies. Here, what is imagined is far from escapism. Kuang’s latest fantasy book-and yet it is so much more than a fantasy. ![]() ![]() Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution is R.F. ![]()
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