The Orange Swan Review

In the Newbery Medal winner for 2003, Crispin: The Cross of Lead , by Avi life for Crispin, a boy of thirteen living in England in 1376 A.D...

If I’m going to write about Etsy, I should probably begin by saying that up until this past spring, I loved Etsy. Etsy was, if not in exact...

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...