The famous book was published 75 years ago.

Sure, “Catcher in the Rye” has its detractors. But the influence of its wised-up yet winningly innocent hero keeps it among the Great American Novels. J.D. Salinger’s novel has sold some 80 million ...

JD Salinger’s wry, subversive classic inspired novelist Joseph O’Connor to be a writer. He reflects on why this story of a disaffected teenager remains as fresh and transgressive as ever In 1981, when ...

This novel is quite difficult to read. It uses a colloquial style as if the protagonist, Holden, is speaking directly to the ...

JD Salinger's perennial teen rebel is hitting a milestone birthday that he'd almost certainly roll his eyes at. The Catcher in the Rye turned 75 on July 16—still banned in some schools, still beloved ...

Reading The Catcher in the Rye in high school once carried a certain edgy credibility. Holden Caulfield was the embodiment of youthful alienation for generations of readers and critics. Novelist ...

There are two kinds of reactions I’ve gotten when I tell people I’m reading “The Catcher in the Rye.” The first is a total non-reaction, where they have no idea what I’m talking about — evidently ...

Some books fade after their moment passes. Others seem to get more relevant with every decade, even as the world around them tries to shut them out. There is one novel from the early 1950s that spent ...

One of the most popular and enigmatic figures in American literary history, J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger (1919-2010) is famous primarily for two things: first, for his landmark semi-autobiographical ...

Somewhere in the halcyon years of internet writing, I read — or, at least, I remember reading — a piece titled “Holden Caulfield was the first millennial dipsh*t.” I’m almost positive this piece ...