Copies of J.D. Salinger’s classic novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ are seen at the Orange Public Library in Orange Village, Ohio. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose ...

My enthusiasm for literature began with my father’s enthusiasm for a fart joke. One night he and I were driving home from a bad play when our conversation turned to flatulence (as conversations with a ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . Of course, just because Salinger wanted things a certain way hasn't prevented people from trying to reprise his plot and character and, even, from ...

Holden No Typical Teen Guardian's Theo Hobson takes issue with the usual characterization of Holden-as-Everyteen, arguing that Holden's particular neuroses are what gives Catcher its power. "The novel ...

MANY OF US find it hard to separate the pleasures of “The Catcher in the Rye” from memories of the peevish delight it gave us as teenagers. From the first page, where narrator Holden Caulfield insists ...

My TikTok feed has only ever dabbled in the literary subgenre of BookTok. I’ll get a book recommendation once a month, at most. But for whatever reason, I get a disproportionate amount of content ...

I read “The Catcher in the Rye” this week. I should say, “re-read” because I did, actually, read the book in high school, though the fact that I couldn’t remember anything about the plot or characters ...

Some call him the original sullen teenager. Since his debut in 1951, Holden Caulfield — the funny, complex, wry protagonist of J.D. Salinger's classic The Catcher in the Rye — has given voice to ...

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I am writing in response to James Wallenstein’s excellent essay on “The Catcher in the Rye” (“Holden Caulfield, 70 years on,” Ideas, Nov. 21). I, too, read “Catcher,” as a 17-year-old — in Catholic ...