Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct East Semitic ...

Right off the bat, Babel is a dark academia book through and through. Heavy emphasis on academia. R.F Kuang does an amazing job developing this world with a blend of magic (translation and silver ...

When the twenty-one-year-old Isaac Babel arrived in St. Petersburg in 1916, he found the city in wild but stimulating upheaval. It was still the capital of Russia and the center of Russian literature ...

Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, his books explore themes of sexual difference and sexual intolerance, inequalities, and discrimination. The appearance of Irving, as part of the BABEL ...