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Holden Caulfield is back in all his teenage angst – but with a whole new gender to complain about. A new book by Mary O’Connell, known mainly for her young-adult work such as “The Sharp Time ...
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 ...
But he's not sure it was ever a masterwork of subversion: "Holden Caulfield is a rich kid, who blew an opportunity at a prep school; he seems a bit phony, a lot spoiled... and those of us who read ...
I am writing in response to James Wallenstein’s excellent essay on “The Catcher in the Rye” (“Holden Caulfield ... was not part of my life, but I related to his loneliness.
Within the next two or three years, though, I was on a forced march through a couple of schools similar to Pencey Prep, from which J.D. Salinger's 16-year-old protagonist Holden Caulfield is ...
D. Salinger’s 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye. A person posted a video on Twitter calling Holden Caulfield a first-generation incel and proto–school shooter; defenders of Caulfield claimed ...
The fencing equipment Holden Caulfield leaves on the subway on the way to a prep school team match; his farewell visit up the hill to grippey Mr. Spencer, whose bedroom reeks of Vicks Nose Drops ...
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... Holden Caulfield: Giving Voice to Generations ...
WASHINGTON -- With those words, 16-year-old Holden Caulfield slouched into American life 50 years ago this month. He was feeling entitled to feel quite sorry for himself. His feelings fascinated ...