The Independent Scholar

The Independent Scholar - May 1, 2026

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In this week's issue:

  • Josh Kline's essay on why NYC real estate has made non-commercial art structurally impossible — and why it went viral in October magazine
  • A third Elsevier editor quietly removed mid-term, and the citation-count J-curve that gave it away
  • Mrs Justice Lieven overturns a £585,000 fine and finds the regulator had "closed its mind" before the investigation began
  • Grand Central Publishing reprints the one Octavia Butler novel she spent her career suppressing
  • Three Tongan scholar-artists and a bamboo nose flute the world had nearly forgotten

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    The Independent ScholarBy Julia Murphy