The Independent Scholar

The Independent Scholar - May 19, 2026


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In this week's issue:

  • A prize-winning story in Granta flagged as 100% AI-generated — and neither the publisher nor the Commonwealth Foundation has said a word
  • Antonia Bembo's 1707 opera reaching the Opéra Bastille for the first time, 319 years after it was composed
  • Michael Wood in the LRB arguing Ozon's restraint gets Camus right in ways Visconti's romanticism never did
  • Sergio Ramírez — stripped of his Nicaraguan citizenship for his writing — on why autocrats don't actually lose sleep over novels
  • Cardiff University giving staff three weeks to clear 7km of rare-book stacks, including irreplaceable Welsh and Celtic literature
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    The Independent ScholarBy Julia Murphy