My student stood next to my desk, computer resting on both hands, his eyes wide with a mixture of fear and excitement. We were wrapping up our end-of-book project for “The Catcher in the Rye,” which ...

Holden Caulfield is exactly one year older than I am. He entered my life when I was 15 and brilliantly unself-aware in the hyper self-awareness of the late ‘60s. It never occurred to me, a ...

Holden Caulfield is just 16 when The Catcher in the Rye opens, but in this 65 th anniversary year of J. D. Salinger’s modern classic, Holden seems much older than he did in 1951 thanks to the ...

As students tackle their summer reading lists, many will have their first encounter with Holden Caulfield. The swaggering, disaffected (and slightly more innocent) precursor to Bret Easton Ellis's ...

Since his debut in 1951, Holden Caulfield — the funny, complex, wry protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye — has given voice to generations of teens caught between youth and ...

Over the years, throughout high school, college and grad school, I would consistently re-read the story of Holden's 3-day trip to New York City, usually reading it around Christmas time.

Reporting from New York — Holden Caulfield was a flâneur.That’s not generally how we think of him, this archetype of adolescent alienation, this detester of phonies, this poor little lost boy ...

Next to the acerbic Holden Caulfield, today's boyish literary icons—the wizard with Coke-bottle glasses, the vampire with an abstinence agenda—look like a bunch of phony morons. The 16-year ...

A biography titled "Salinger," to be published next week, cites two independent, separate sources saying new works by the author will be released periodically, between 2015 and 2020.