Free Article: A Social History of The Catcher in the Rye 

January 27, 2010, marked the passing of  J. D. Salinger. To honor his extraordinary talent, we are offering readers a free download of Stephen Whitfield's perenially popular "Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of The Catcher in the Rye," NEQ, December 1997. Click here to access the article.

New Podcast! 

Mary Kelley, member of the NEQ editorial board, interviews Deirdre Clemente about her article "'Prettier Than They Used to Be': Femininity, Fashion, and the Recasting of Radcliffe's Reputation, 1900-1950," which appears in the December 2009 issue of The New England Quarterly. The conversation was recorded on December 21, 2009.

Podcast and Article>>
 
In the March 2010 Issue (Coming Soon!):

Breathing the "Free Aire of the New World": The Influence of the New England Way on the Gathering of Congregational Churches in Old England, 1640-1660
Ralph F. Young

French Women, Italian Art, and Other "Advocates of the Body" in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing
Dorothy Z. Baker 

Pines, Profits, and Popular Politics: Responses to the White Pine Acts in the Colonial Connecticut River Valley
Strother E. Roberts


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