Synopsis
In introducing 40 essays from Lingua Franca (1990-2001), Star, who edited this now defunct low-budget general academic interest magazine from 1995 until 2001, explains what made it such a lively, influential intellectual review. LF's forte was academic controversies such as "the Sokal hoax"; here its physicist perpetrator confesses to getting his scientific parody taken seriously by a postmodern humanities journal in 1996. There are Internet rumors of LF's possible resurrection. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Alexander Star edited Lingua Franca from 1995 until 2001. He is currently the Ideas editor of The Boston Globe. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books.
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