Counterlife
Reading books like Franny and Zooey as a child in California made Jews seem an exotic minority. In New York, they seem like any old hegemony.
Sundown: U.S. Says Iran ‘Anything but Peaceful’
Plus the mumps hit, meowing in Auschwitz, and more
Portnoy’s Complaint, Zooey’s Remedy
Salinger may have predated Roth, but he was also a step ahead
Sundown: U.S. Jews Uneasy With Israel
Plus J.D.’s Jewishness Unease, blustery Dubai, and more
Mountain Man
In New England, Salinger could be a puritanical scold and a back-to-nature Buddhist Jew




