About the Author
Christopher S. Stewart is the author of Hunting the Tiger, a book about Zeljko “Arkan” Raznatovic, the Serbian mobster and warlord at the center of the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
He’s a former contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, where, among other things, he wrote about the Unification Church’s gun business and corruption in Iraq.
His work has also appeared in GQ, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Salon, Wired, and other publications.
His second book, about a lost city and an American spy who claimed he found it, will be published by Harper Studio.
He lives in New York.
Articles
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Obsessed With the Internet: A Tale From China
Wired
Interveiw: CBC Radio, Dispatches
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Axis of Commerce
Conde Nast Portfolio
Interveiw: NPR, To the Point
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Clash of the Sailing Tycoons
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Money, Guns and God
Conde Nast Portfolio
Interveiw: WNYC, Leonard Lopate Show
Books
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Hunting the Tiger
(2008)’Starting with his own heart-pounding train trip through Serbia in the late 1990s, Christopher S. Stewart launches the reader into the dark, bloody world of Serb paramilitaries. Hunting the Tiger is a fast, terrifying read that manages to penetrate one of the most violent and secretive... -
Lost
(2012)It’s called Ciudad Blanca, or the White City, and explorers as far back as the Spanish conquistadors went looking for it deep in the Honduran jungle – with no luck. Some of the men never came out; they died or disappeared. Others got lost. But in 1939, one man, an American spy, claimed he...
@csstewartFlickr Photo Stream
News
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January 5, 2010Check out the Q&A I just did for my lost city book.
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July 24, 2008I'll be talking on NPR's On Point about my new Portfolio article, Enemy of the State, about a Bronx attorney fighting to free Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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June 5, 2008I'll be in Boston, at the Todaro Fund, speaking about my article “ The Betrayal of Judge Radhi.”