This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Around the time I turned 15, I was convinced that the only person who really got me was a 17-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield. Although Holden is fictional, the protagonist of J. D. Salinger’s classic novel The Catcher in the Rye felt three-dimensional to me. Yet in the 75 years since the book’s publication, he has been flattened by pop culture into a character Salinger didn’t create