Thursday's Notes

Farhad Manjoo,"Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success?" Time, 28 September, seeks to understand why the expansion of Wikipedia has slowed dramatically in the last two years. Is it the first collapse in the internet's ecosystem? [Cliopatria's resident expert on such things, Sage Ross, is otherwise preoccupied with the birth of Brighton.]

Michael Bérubé,"What's the Matter With Cultural Studies?" CHE, 14 September, provokes replies in Ira Livingston's"What's the Matter with Michael?" Bully Bloggers, 23 September, and The Cultural Studies Graduate Group, UC Davis,"A Note from the Unicorns: A Cultural Studies PhD Program responds to Michael Berube," Bully Bloggers, 23 September. He replies in"Things I Did Not Know," Michael Bérubé, 23 September.

Laura Miller,"America, the beautiful (America, the ugly)," Salon, 23 September, reviews Greil Marcus and Werner Sollers, eds., A New Literary History of America.

Joshua Kendall,"Samuel Johnson, anti-American," Boston Globe, 20 September, argues that America's love of Johnson was unrequited.

Bernard Porter,"The Anglo-world of settlers, not dominators," TLS, 23 September, reviews James Belich's Replenishing the Earth: The settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo-world.

Allan Massie,"William Golding and the capacity for evil," TLS, 23 September, reviews John Carey's William Golding: The man who wrote"Lord of the Flies".