Like Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, Saidiya Hartman’s “Venus in Two Acts,” or The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Babel is a necessary, timely rebuttal to current misreadings of history, and, like them, does so with innovative use of narrative forms and by redefining the nature of historical evidence. Babel, brilliant both in concept and execution, is a page-turner with footnotes, a thriller with a higher purpose, a Bildungsroman where the stakes matter. Kuang indicts, educates and urges us to reframe-to (re)translate-the dominant narrative of what the West calls its civilization. Babel, Or The Necessity Of Violence: An Arcane History o f The Oxford Translators’ Revolution, a cross between historical fiction and sci-fi fantasy by R.
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