The Independent Scholar

The Independent Scholar - May 25, 2026

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In this week's issue:

  • Harold Bloom's private letters, finally published — and why the man who called himself a "monster of reading" sounds nothing like the oracular author of The Western Canon
  • A Sydney panel with Mariana Enriquez, Bora Chung, and Matt Alt on what gets lost when writers write for global markets instead of local ones
  • The first English translation of a Sholom Aleichem novella that never made it into his collected works — horse thieves, swindlers, and the wrong side of the shtetl
  • Esperanto's great schism: the utopian camp that wants mass adoption vs. the diaspora camp that decided to stop waiting

    • Here we go.

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    The Independent ScholarBy Julia Murphy