In 'A Theology of Fiction,' Cassandra Nelson explores how Sr. Mariella Gable stimulated a 20th century surge by American Catholic writers.

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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.

There are two kinds of reactions I’ve gotten when I tell people I’m reading “The Catcher in the Rye.” The first is a total non-reaction, where they have no idea what I’m talking about — evidently ...

That’s all I do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.” It eminently ties together what this novel is about. Holden ...

Gyllenhaal appears in the film as Justine’s enigmatic coworker Holden, who fashions himself after the young protagonist in ...

but that he then changed his approach when he was struck by a line in J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”: “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause ...

Holden Caulfield, the sixteen-year-old protagonist of J. D. Salinger’s first novel, “The Catcher in the Rye,” which has been published by Little, Brown and chosen by the Book-of-the-Month ...

My public school friends met Holden in their junior year of high school, and some of them still swear that The Catcher in the Rye is the best book they’ve ever read. I even recall reading an interview ...

Holden Caulfield, that prep school dropout in The Catcher in the Rye, is not exactly a Jewish boychik. Nor is there anything much Jewish in the later stories about the Glass family, even though ...