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 ...

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 ...

Ask a group of high school students about John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” and you won’t get much response. “Huckleberry Finn” doesn’t ignite much o… ...

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 ...