Babel delivers subversive, sharp study on academia’s pitfalls
2022-10-03
Set in the glorious and imperial London of the 1830s, the novel “Babel” by R.F. Kuang follows a young boy, Robin Swift, as he is whisked away from his childhood home in Canton by the stoic Professor Lovell. An unforgiving disciplinarian, Lovell trains Robin to master Latin, Greek, English, andContinue Reading