The Independent Scholar

The Independent Scholar - May 4, 2026

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In this week's issue:

  • How the American right invented "Cultural Marxism" — and why a new book says the Frankfurt School had almost nothing to do with it
  • A publisher commissions a crisis report about children not reading, then sells them the cure
  • Argentina's most powerful literary agent telling the Buenos Aires Book Fair that publishers now print twice as many books as they can sell
  • Michael Wood's elegy for Julian Barnes — one of the LRB's finest critics writing about one of England's finest novelists
  • A linguist who spent 33 years preserving a dying American dialect is hanging up his tape recorder

    • Let's get into it.

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    The Independent ScholarBy Julia Murphy