A week out from publication, “Babel” and “Yellowface” author R.F. Kuang’s new fantasy novel “Katabasis” is already in the works as a TV series at Amazon MGM Studios. “The Walking Dead” showrunner Angela Kang is set as writer and showrunner on the project.
Releasing Aug. 26 from Harper Voyager Publishing, Kuang’s “Katabasis” is a fantastical academic satire that follows Alice Law, a graduate student studying Magick at Cambridge University, as she descends into the underworld to retrieve her deceased advisor, Professor Grimes, in order to get his recommendation to secure her future after graduation. Alice’s academic rival, Peter Murdoch,…