September 15, 2006

'Transition' Re-Emerges After a 4-Year Pause

By DAVID GLENN

THINGS COME TOGETHER: After a difficult four-year hiatus, the African-oriented literary and political journal Transition will re-emerge this month. The journal, which is headquartered at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, was dropped in 2002 by Duke University Press, whose directors felt that the art-heavy and elaborately designed publication was too expensive to sustain (The Chronicle, May 17, 2002). Now it will appear under the aegis of