Described by Fredric Jameson as a loss of historicity and by Brian McHale as a fascination with the ontological, the term postmodernism seems to have taken many different variations. At its very essence, this movement encompasses a questioning of...

In an interview with The Millions, Teju Cole was quick to state that Salinger’s American classic The Catcher in the Rye is “one of the not-often-noticed shadows” (Morton, 2014) of his debut novel, Open City. At face value this statement simply...