Volume 50, Number 3 · February 27, 2003
In Memoriam
By Andrew Delbanco
Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca
edited and with an introduction by Alexander Star
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 514 pp., $18.00 (paper)
Late in 2001, when a financial backer pulled out his investment, the magazine Lingua Franca became, as Ron Rosenbaum put it in The New York Observer, an 'orphan of the academic storm.' For a while, there were hopes that someone would come to its rescue and adopt it, but no one did. Now that it seems to have shut down permanently, its longest-serving editor, Alexander Star, has brought out a memorial anthology, Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca, that is filled with the wit and energy for which the short-lived magazine (it lasted eleven years) was known.
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