Madeline.

A cultural news roundup.

• RIP, Encyclopedia Britannica.
• A Delhi conference was too small for both Salman Rushdie and Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan.
• Southampton’s venerable “Hobbit Pub” is being sued by the upcoming film; Stephen Fry leaps to its defense.
• Das Rheingold? There’s an app for that.
• I’ll be dipped! A dictionary of regional American English.
• Gilgamesh! The Urban Dictionary lit guide.
• What we talk about when we talk about fan fic.
• Good Books, indeed.
• Hemingway’s keeper shelf.
• Build your own Murakami!
• Discovered: five hundred forgotten fairy tales.
• Madeline’s mixtape.
• Hitchens reports on the afterlife.