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    Did Salinger Go Awry?

    A boxed set for the writer’s centenary confirms him as the master of possibility

    byAdam Kirsch
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    The Bathtub Kabbalah of J.D. Salinger

    Two new biographical sketches depict the great recluse as agent of growth, emblem of permanent adolescence, and cipher

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Rye Day

    J.D. Salinger’s most famous book has its birthday

    byAdam Chandler
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    How the Other Half Lives

    Today on Tablet

    byMarc Tracy
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    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.

    byAlice Gregory
  • God.(Wikipedia)
    God.(Wikipedia)
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    Sundown: God Is a Two-Stater

    Plus an evening with Salinger, and more

    byMarc Tracy
  • (Amazon.com)
    (Amazon.com)
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    Ban My Book—Please!

    Do Jews no longer push cultural buttons?

    byDan Klein
  • (Vance Lessard/2AM Photography)
    (Vance Lessard/2AM Photography)
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    Portnoy’s Complaint, Zooey’s Remedy

    Salinger may have predated Roth, but he was also a step ahead

    byAri M. Brostoff
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    Today on Tablet

    Remembering Salinger, paled pictures from the Pale, and more

    byMarc Tracy
  • (Photo collage by Tablet Magazine; Salinger photo: Getty Images; New Hampshire photo: istockphoto)
    (Photo collage by Tablet Magazine; Salinger photo: Getty Images; New Hampshire photo: istockphoto)
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    Mountain Man

    In New England, Salinger could be a puritanical scold and a back-to-nature Buddhist Jew

    byVirginia Heffernan
  • J.D. Salinger.(Javno)
    J.D. Salinger.(Javno)
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    J.D. Salinger Dies

    ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ author was Jewish

    byMarc Tracy
  • (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
    (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
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    On the Bookshelf

    Soloveitchik, Céline, Salinger, and more

    byJosh Lambert
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    Wolves at the Door

    My brother and I carried our shared past in different directions

    byLawrence Levi
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    A Door Opens

    The author of ‘Stern’ remembers his heady first days on the literary scene

    byBruce Jay Friedman
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