Many classic works of literature, including “The Odyssey,” “Catcher in the Rye,” “Brave New World,” and “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,” have sexually explicit scenes.

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A turning point in life of the counterculture icon John Lennon arrived with the simple proclamation: “[The Beatles] are more popular than Jesus now”.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s son Sean Ono Lennon gave rare insight into his unique upbringing, calling his parents “ahead of ...

It’s a reality that brings to mind "The Catcher in the Rye’s" Holden Caulfield: a young person suffocating under society’s expectations, longing for authenticity in a world full of "phonies." ...

In his debut,” Belle and Sebastian singer Stuart Murdoch tells a coming-of-age story that mirrors his own. Set in the early 1990s, Stephen is a young ...

The cravenness of intellectual elites is one of America’s saving graces. They may self-righteously advance incendiary ideas about race, gender, politics, ...

“The Catcher in the Rye,” offers some clues. The refusal of Holden Caulfield’s family to discuss his brother’s death is a metaphor for what J.D. Salinger saw as America’s unwillingness ...