A cultural news roundup.

George Orwell, on food.

Frederick Seidel, on motorcycles.

Teenage Bronte, on the block.

New classics?

Overrated hacks?

Pippi, a racist?

The cult of Betsy-Tacy.

The Art of Protein Bars.

The Lego Bible.

The Jeopardy! Pyramid of Greatness.

The letters of Wodehouse: “Found in both his fiction and his letters, terms such as “posish,” “eggs and b,” and “f i h s” (“fiend in human shape”) create a clubby feeling of intimacy between writer and reader.” 

Journalism booms in Libya.

“I’m scared of dying in the middle of a book. I leave notes out in my room so that if I die people know how to finish it.”