Book Review: "Bridge of Words," by Esther Schor

Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language By Esther Schor Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company Reviewed by Jason Pettus I've long had a fascination for Esperanto, the "global second language" that got invented in the late Victorian Age, flourished among the far-left political parties of Early Modernism's Communist era, and had its last big hurrah among the hippies of the countercultural age. (For those who don't know, Esperanto was deliberately designed to be th...