The Orange Swan Review

Someone on Metafilter.com linked to the lovely slideshow above on YouTube yesterday, saying a friend of his had put it together in celebr...

Satire is a difficult thing to review for the same reason that Saturday Night Live sketches generally don’t make good movies: because sati...

A few months ago I came across a copy of Especially Father , by Gladys Bagg Taber, in Value Village. The book, written in 1948, seemed to b...

Of late there has been a lot of copy generated about coping with the recession. Salon for example has been running a series of lifestyle ar...

Katherine Paterson’s Jacob Have I Loved has been sitting on my desk for quite some time, waiting for me to review it. I remember not likin...

Good books on style are one of my genre-specific literary addictions. I have a little collection of such books I've read and reread to t...

Kate Seredy's 1938 Newbery winner The White Stag tells the mythic story of the Huns and their journey from their former barren lands in...

The Newbery winner for 2008, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village came into being because its author, Laura Amy Schli...

I was overjoyed when I first learned that Faith Sullivan had written a sequel to The Cape Ann . It had been a long time coming. The Cape Ann...

I've been meaning to write a review about the Newbery award-winner for 1936, Caddie Woodlawn , but for some reason I find myself with li...

Patricia MacLachlan’s Sarah, Plain and Tall , the Newbery Medal winner for 1986, is set on a nineteenth-century prairie farm. Anna (who narr...