Shop the best hats for men this winter and spring 2024, ranging from brands including Carhartt, Canada Goose, Naadam, The North Face, and more.

A short story, from 1946. A prep-school boy, home in N.Y. on vacation, rebels against boys' schools, and against life in general. He walks out on his girl when she refuses to … ...

Can I ask?” 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 ...

Justin Bieber doesn't play by anyone's style rules but his own. When you see a Bieber fit, it's a definitively Bieber fit—probably very baggy, very casual, very dope.

One of our editor’s favorite summer hats, this not only comes in a bucket hat style but the performance fabric is also made to be able to cool instantly—up to 30 degrees—once met with water ...

OLD SCHOOL STYLE The bright red version of this cap either calls to mind Holden Caulfield or, well, you know who. If red hats are ruined forever for you, J Crew also offers a softer maroon color it ...

Last week, a debate erupted on Twitter over J. 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 ...

Holden yearns to tell the reader about his late brother Allie, and he does so sporadically through stories that always seem prematurely cut off. While his narration style can be choppy in general, ...

Although Caulfield isn’t sure exactly what he’s after in the novel, he is still after something. This notion of iconoclasm would later come to fruition only five years after the best-seller was ...

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).