Today is J.D. Salinger’s 100th birthday, but Holden Caulfield is still 17. The iconic teenager of The Catcher in the Rye will forever be a symbol of our youthful alienation. Although a few ...

A sensitive teen, believing he is destined to play Holden Caulfield, goes in search of J.D. Salinger and, along the way, discovers love, sex and loss.

“The Catcher in the Rye,” by J.D. Salinger Among our respondents, this 1951 novel elicited the most — and most merciless — complaints. Much of the grumbling revolved around Holden ...