Madeleine Schwartz Biography Madeleine Schwartz is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and has written for the London Review of Books, the Nation, and Harper’s. See Work FICTION / Winter 2019 Santa Tecla By Madeleine Schwartz , Illustration by Lizzy Stewart The hotel where she had hoped to spend a very happy week was in a small village in Tuscany at the end of two trains and a bus, facing a wheat field. FICTION / Summer 2018 Collusion By Madeleine Schwartz , Illustration by Melody Newcomb She had moved to Germany to be a writer but quickly found there wasn’t very much to write about. Germany was calm. The people were friendly and straightforward. If you managed a few words of German they would say, “Your German is very good...