loppear reviewed Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their …
dark skewering academia
3 stars
A tumbling of traumatic scenes in hell and in university, a logical-paradox-driven magick gives as many fun revisits to mathematical puzzles as to Dante's Inferno or the Rigveda. Less convinced of the plot and character motivations, but the pace keeps up well enough.