Ian Schwartz
Content by Ian Schwartz
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Former CIA officer Robert Baer, whose experiences in the Middle East inspired the film Syriana, makes his fiction debut with Blow the House Down, an alternative history to 9/11 that wea
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When you talk of talented writers under 40, Benjamin Percy is a name that must come up.
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A family is a fragile entity.
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Robert Olmstead, author of the national bestseller Coal Black Horse, delivers another work of prose with language so painstaking and exact it reads more like poetry.
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In The Red Chamber, a vivid, lively reimagining of the lengthy Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber, Pauline A.
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Australian writer David Rain debuts with a rather American novel, a sensitive, intelligent snapshot of a watershed moment in our country’s history.
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British author Ned Beauman follows up his award-winning debut, Boxer, Beetle, with a novel equally bizarre, original and satisfying.
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David Bezmozgis' Natasha: and Other Stories, seven stories about growing up a poor Russian Jewish immigrant in Toronto are so Russian in tone they should be read with a g
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Considering these permissive times, it may be difficult to understand that not so long ago, sex not only didn't saturate nearly everything we watched and read, but was a taboo subject in genera
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Elizabeth Gaffney, a contributing editor to The Paris Review, has written an immigrant's song of a first novel.
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In Michael Crichton’s posthumously published Pirate Latitudes, the grog is strong, the wenches are saucy, the blood is spilled by the bucket and the cutthroats do their slici
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Josh Bazell landed a lucrative publishing deal for his first novel shortly after graduating from medical school.
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the Indonesian author of All That is Gone, makes each word resonate with meaning.
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<b>Getting the job done, Corey's way</b> Former NYPD detective John Corey is back in Nelson DeMille's 14th novel, <b>Wild Fire</b>.
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In Whiteman, an engrossing first novel that reads an awful lot like a highly charged memoir, Tony D'Souza takes us into West Africa, a land where tragedy is as common as daybreak.
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I was wary of Glen David Gold's Sunnyside before I opened it.
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First novel sure to make a splash All friendships are not created equal.
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First novel sure to make a splash Marriage is often confusing. Sometimes, to find out if it is worth saving, you must crack it open like a Christmas chestnut and inspect it minutely.
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Ghost stories, more than most other tales, are at heart love stories. At their core is the fact that someone, on this side or the other, just flat out refuses to let go.
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New York City is never merely a setting in Pete Hamill's novels.
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Elizabeth Frank deftly explores a singularly ignoble era of American history with her towering debut novel, Cheat and Charmer.
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It's hard not to like Hannah Tinti even before you read Animal Crackers.
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In his moving, funny and compulsively readable second novel, The Book of Joe, Jonathan Tropper proves that while you can go home again, actually doing so can be colossally upsetting to all inv
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There are coming-of-age novels, and then there are the odd and mystical tales written by novelist and poet Nicholas Christopher.
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Nearly 40 years after Mark Helprin's first short story was published in the New Yorker, the talented author continues his exploration of the genre with The Pacific and Other Stories.
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In the pantheon of modern fiction, how important is Raymond Carver?
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Jeff Shaara, one of the grand masters of military fiction, returns with the final novel of his acclaimed WWII trilogy.
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To say Jon Clinch's writing talent matches his literary ambition is high praise indeed.
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In his wry, winning novels, Inman Majors has written about the South’s shady businessmen, bent politicians and moderately dysfunctional families with the delicate grace of—well, a South
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Alternative history is usually a simple, if tantalizing affair. What if the South had won the Civil War? What if the Nazis had prevailed in World War II?
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Families, as anyone who has ever had one knows, are never perfect.
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It doesn't take more than a few minutes of reading Laurie Lynn Drummond's debut collection, Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You to realize that this nomadic ex-cop can flat-out w
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Dave King's ambitious and original first novel, The Ha-Ha, is about a man unable to speak, write or read, who suddenly finds himself thrust into the role of father figure to a troubled young b
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It only takes a few pages of Luis Alberto Urrea’s thoroughly enjoyable Into the Beautiful North to start you wondering whether this book will break or warm your heart.
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T.C. Boyle, one of the 21st century's most prolific and eclectic authors, turns his hand to suspense with a novel based on the invasive and chillingly simple crime of identity theft.
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In his satirical new work, It's All True: A Novel of Hollywood, screenwriter and author David Freeman continues his artful use of fiction to reveal truths about Hollywood.
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Christopher Moore’s re-imagining of the King Lear story is closer to Shakespeare on acid than Shakespeare in the Park.
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