Copies of Lingua Franca used to be hard to pin down in Â鶹´«Ã½’s offices: the first person to catch sight of this “witty review of academic life” would hoard it until they’d had time to enjoy it. When the magazine closed last year, its spirit lingered: people still searched for it on the desk of the usual suspect.
Happily for Lingua Franca addicts, its editor Alexander Starr has produced a compendium of the best bits of this “collective portrait of the American intellectual in its native habitat” in Quick Studies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18). Sample Helen Epstein’s “Bonobos…
