JD Salinger
Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Middlemarch is about everything, for every person, at every age’
The novelist on taking lessons from Doris Lessing, being inspired by John Steinbeck and why she can no longer read JD Salinger
Barbara Kingsolver
21, Oct, 2022 @9:00 AM
Rare signed edition of The Catcher in the Rye on sale for £225,000
JD Salinger did not want his friends cashing in, so inscribed copy of classic novel is one of the hardest titles for collectors to acquire
David Barnett
11, Sep, 2022 @8:00 AM
‘You think wrong!’: top 10 rants in literature
Some distrust kvetching in print, but writers from Shakespeare to Valerie Solanas show there’s nothing wrong with constructive – and even destructive – criticism
Lucy Ellmann
25, Aug, 2021 @11:00 AM
Top 10 stories about bored teenagers | John Patrick McHugh
Writers from Alice Munro to JD Salinger capture the restless ennui and dangerous passions of the do-nothing years before adulthood sets in
John Patrick McHugh
28, Jul, 2021 @12:22 PM
Sally Rooney: 'I want the next thing I do to be the best thing I’ve ever done'
The Normal People author on the joy of Jeeves and the influence of JD Salinger’s Franny and Zooey
Sally Rooney
17, Apr, 2020 @9:00 AM
My New York Year (aka My Salinger Year) review – bafflingly insipid literary memoir clunks hard
Based on Joanna Rakoff’s book, this simpering knock-off of The Devil Wears Prada is so wet you could shoot snipe off it
Peter Bradshaw
20, Feb, 2020 @7:00 PM
JD Salinger exhibition to unveil photographs, letters and notebooks
New York Public Library exhibit will show a mix of personal and literary effects, and will run for three months
Tom McCarthy in New York
07, Oct, 2019 @4:14 PM
JD Salinger estate finally agrees to ebook editions
Author’s son explains that wish for accessibility has persuaded trustees to look past his father’s dislike of digital media
Sian Cain
12, Aug, 2019 @3:49 PM
From everyteen to annoying: are today's young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye?
JD Salinger’s Holden Caulfield once seemed the universal voice of teenage angst, but now he’s too quaint for young people. Can we learn to love it again, asks Dana Czapnik
Dana Czapnik
01, Aug, 2019 @7:00 AM
Top 10 teenage friendships in fiction |
From Great Expectations’s Pip and Estella to My Brilliant Friend’s Elena and Lina, these volatile years have inspired many brilliant novels
Kate Hamer
29, May, 2019 @10:30 AM
Book clinic: what shall I read while my teenager goes off the rails?
From JD Salinger to Jeanette Winterson and Caitlin Moran, all kinds of literature can see you through the worst of adolescent angst
Tim Adams
23, Feb, 2019 @6:00 PM
JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms
Exclusive: The Catcher in the Rye author’s son tells the Guardian estate will publish almost ‘all of what he wrote’ over next decade
Alison Flood
01, Feb, 2019 @8:00 PM
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