The rebellious teen narrating J.D. Salinger’s classic novel of arrested development still speaks to us. But should we be listening?
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Even before generative AI went mainstream, fewer people were reading books.
The idea of generations as self-conscious group identities came into being with the trauma and upheaval of the first world war.
What happened after artists such as Michael Jackson, J.D. Salinger and Franz Kafka died suggests it’ll be hard to keep Prince’s unpublished work out of the public eye, regardless of his wishes.
Today marks six years since celebrated writer J. D. Salinger died at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire, at the age of 91. But his influence remains well and truly alive.
More than 60 years after The Catcher in the Rye was first published, and four years on from his death in 2010, American author J.D. Salinger continues to divide people. He even divides some people from…
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