Academia is Hell. Figuratively and literally.  Set in the 1980s, R.F. Kuang’s newest novel, “Katabasis,” is a story about an overworked, desperate grad student who travels to the depths of...

Get your popcorn. Put away your morals. Dragons, brutality and bloodthirst for the Iron Throne are back on the television screen. “House of the Dragon,” the prequel to the most watched show in television...