The Orange Swan Review

Like a lot of other Canadians I read Margaret Wente’s column in The Globe and Mail at least semi-regularly, and again as is common with man...

The 1924 Newbery medalist, The Dark Frigate , is about a young sailor named Philip Marsham, and his adventures and misadventures on land and...

For a special Valentine’s Day Orange Swan Review article, I've written a little piece about online personal ads. All the quotes in this...

Back in my college days, I bought secondhand copies of Nick Bantock’s irresistibly beautiful Griffin & Sabine and The Golden Mean . I d...

Olive Schreiner’s book The Story of an African Farm is one of those books that are more important and interesting for its cultural and hist...

Lynne Rae Perkins’ Criss Cross , the 2006 Newbery Medal winner, is a novel about a group of teenagers in a small town called Seldem, and tak...

The first-ever Newbery award-winner, The Story of Mankind , written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem van Loon, is difficult to review not b...

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 ...