The Orange Swan Review

Although I have read the very first Newbery Medal winner, The Story of Mankind , by Hendrik Willem van Loon (and am, er, working on the revi...

I decided to read Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn , by Joan Hardwick, because I was intrigued by the description...

Last July there appeared on Metafilter a front page post about a book called From The Ballroom to Hell, by T.A. Faulkner . As MeFites were q...

I’m contemplating a large, ongoing project for The Orange Swan Review : to review all the Newbery Medal winners. To give you an idea of the...

Betsy Prioleau began the research that led to Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love because of the reaction t...

New Year’s Eve is approaching, I’d like to review something thematically in keeping with the occasion, and my spent 2006 planner is sitting ...

I've been meaning to write a special Christmas-themed review about O. Henry's The Gifts of the Magi and four of his other short sto...

Patrick Suskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a novel about the life and career of an orphan boy born in eighteenth century Paris. ...

Witch Child by Celia Rees is a young adult novel about a seventeenth-century English girl, Mary. The woman who raised Mary and whom Mary ca...

I found out about the novel Sunshine , by young adult fantasy writer Robin McKinley by visiting McKinley's web site . Upon reading the e...

Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods is a novel about a man who is a Vietnam vet, a politician, the product of a troubled family, and the...

Anne De Courcy’s The Viceroy’s Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters is a biography of three English sisters – Irene Curzon (1896-1966...

Cathie Pelletier's novel Once Upon A Time On the Banks employs a structure I particularly like. I have a fondness for the ensemble nove...

As Beryl Markham is not well-known, I should probably begin by saying Markham (1902-1986) was Kenya’s first female bush pilot, the first per...