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TODAY:cIn 1951, The Catcher in the Rye is published by Little Brown and Company.

“Perhaps every sixteen-year-old boy needs a smart sister like Phoebe Caulfield.” Why Phoebe’s the real icon in The Catcher in the Rye. | Lit Hub Criticism

How Israel turned Gaza into an “annihilation zone” by leveling the land. | Lit Hub History

Clare Cavanagh considers how the poetry of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska teaches us that “trivia matters. Frivolity counts. The ordinary is anything but.” | Lit Hub Criticism