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Friday essay: The Catcher in the Rye is 75 – and every time I meet Holden Caulfield, I see him anew

Reading The Catcher in the Rye in high school once carried a certain edgy credibility. Holden Caulfield was the embodiment of youthful alienation for generations of readers and critics. Novelist Joseph O’Connor recalls how, “like many teenaged readers”, he “felt like Holden was talking to me – perhaps to me…

The Conversation · Oct 1

Newly released letters reveal JD Salinger’s wariness over ‘second-rate reviewers’

Exclusive: Author asked to remove reference to his ‘Jewish-Irishness’ from book jacket of The Catcher in the Rye

The Guardian - UK · Apr 26

Rumaan Alam: ‘Reading JD Salinger now is like running into that particular ex at a cafe’

The US author on his early love of Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the genius of Judy Blume, and finding perfection in Agatha Christie and Gustave Flaubert

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2025

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2024

Best light novels for a relaxing read

Relaxing reads for cosy evenings in

Evening Standard · Dec 21, 2023

24 of the best-selling novels of all time to read in 2024

Increase your cultural capital and expand your worldview

Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2023

Joyce Maynard: 'I wouldn't recommend being published when you're a teenager'

Our guest is an acclaimed writer with a career spanning more than fifty years. In that time she's published hundreds of essays as well as twenty books, including the memoir "At Home in the World" – where she spoke of her relationship with "The Catcher in the Rye" author JD…

France 24 · Oct 17, 2023

How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs

How books by Hemingway, Stephen King, the Marquis De Sade etc influenced Metallica, Nirvana, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, The Prodigy, The Jam, David Bowie and more

Metal Hammer · Jul 23, 2023

Mystique, minimalism and cataclysm: Cormac McCarthy's fiction was a dark counter-narrative to American optimism

It is testimony to Cormac McCarthy’s reputation as a writer of dark and violent fictions that his publishers should explicitly have stated in their press release on Tuesday that his death was due to “natural causes”.

The Conversation · Jun 14, 2023

Will high school "classics" be replaced?

Efforts to diversify the authors of high school canon is facing both backlash and approval

Salon · Oct 8, 2022