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Lingua Franca was an American 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 ceased publication in the 2001 economic downturn. The following year, editor Alexander Star published the collection Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca.

See also

• Arts & Letters Daily

External links

• Lingua Franca Article Archive
• Dennis Loy Johnson. "Who Killed Lingua Franca?". http://www.mobylives.com/Lingua_Franca_demise.html. Retrieved April 14, 2006.  
• The New York Times: Chronicle of Academic Life Suspends Publication
• "When Intellectuals Had a Real Magazine: Viva Lingua Franca!" By Ron Rosenbaum in The New York Observer, (April 2006).