David Carr's"Editor of Note, Perched Online," NYT, 7 October, introduces Tina Brown's new web journal, The Daily Beast.

Jennifer Howard,"New Ratings of Humanities Journals Do More Than Rank — They Rankle," CHE, 10 October, features a European effort to rate and rank academic journals and the rebellion against it by American historians of science, technology, and medicine.

Erica Westly,"No Nobel for You: Top 10 Nobel Snubs," Scientific America, 6 October, features prominent scientists, including several women, who were ignored by the Nobel Prize committees.

Donald A. Yerxa,"The Other World War II," Books & Culture, September/October, is a conversation with Max Hastings, the author of Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-1945. Genzo Yamamoto,"Divine Wind," ibid., reviews Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney's Kamikaze Diaries, Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers.

Sean O'Hagan,"Rock from a hard place," Guardian, 5 October, reviews Philip Norman's John Lennon: The Life.