The Independent Scholar

The Independent Scholar - April 24, 2026


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In this week's issue:
- How Hong Kong's National Security Law is now reshaping who can even exhibit at the world's largest Chinese-language book fair
- A publicly funded UK poetry journal that accepted a poem and then pulled it — allegedly because of what the poet had said online about gender
- Tennessee's "Charlie Kirk Act" and what it actually does to campus speech once you read past the name
- Why literary Twitter is in a genuine rage about what Picador has done to Roberto Bolaño's covers
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The Independent ScholarBy Julia Murphy