Lingua Franca was a magazine about intellectual and literary life in
academia. It was where the
Sokal Affair was first revealed and its editors later published a book (The Sokal Hoax) of selected papers on the subject.The magazine folded in the 2001 economic downturn. The following year, editor
Alexander Star published the collection Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca.
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