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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...