The Independent Scholar

The Independent Scholar - April 26, 2026

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In this week's issue:

  • A university press pulps 5,000 copies of an Indigenous children's book — not because of anything in the book, but because of its illustrator's Substack
  • Peter J. Carroll, the man Robert Anton Wilson called the most important writer on Magick since Crowley, died unexpectedly at 73 — announced only via his publisher's social channels
  • Coco Fusco on why Wifredo Lam's synthesis of Afro-Cuban religion and Surrealism is one of the twentieth century's most underrated critical frameworks
  • Rohmer's entire filmography, reread as a map of philosophical problems — with Le Rayon Vert as the unlikely centerpiece

    • Here we go.

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    The Independent ScholarBy Julia Murphy