Other Work
“Zero Lines,” novel excerpt, Switchyard, winter 2024
“Trespasses,” short story, BOMB, summer 2022
“The Biggest Little City,” short story, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, January 2021
“COIN,” short story, The Line Literary Review, January 2021
“Know Your Enemy,” short story, Wired, January 2017 (Storybound version here)
“Babylon,” short story, Playboy, June 2016
“Hey, Haole,” short story, Pleiades, summer 2016
“Under a Crescent Moon,” novel excerpt, Epiphany, winter/spring 2013
“And Bugs Don’t Bleed,” short story, Fire & Forget, February 2013
“Brothers in Arms,” short story, The Nevada Review, spring 2011
“The Forever Wars Were a Mistake. Supporting Ukraine Is Not,” Politico Magazine, September 2024
“Ukraine is No Forever War,” The Boston Globe, February 2024
“Lines in Kherson,” Arrowsmith Journal, April 2024
“Peace Through Victory: The Grim Resolve of Ukraine’s Citizen-Soldiers,” Esquire, November 2023
“The Secret Weapons of Ukraine,” Esquire, February 2023
“Notes from Lviv,” Esquire, March 2022
“Leaving Afghanistan Behind,” Esquire, October 2021
An Interview with Corey Sobel, author of The Redshirt, Esquire, October 2020
“The Sentinels of Silicon Valley,” Esquire, December 2019
“The Newest Recruit,” Esquire, September 2019
An Interview with Ukrainian Writer Artem Chapeye, Electric Literature, April 2023
An Interview with Dewaine Farria, author of Revolutions of All Colors, World Literature Today, October 2023
“Akuna Robinson: Trailblazing Superstar of Thru-Hiking,” ESPN, November 2021
“My Advice for American Veterans Who Want to Get on a Plane to Ukraine,” The New York Times, opinion, April 2022
“A Father’s Impossible Promise,” The New York Times, opinion, April 2020
“At the Parade,” The New York Times, opinion, November 2019
“The President’s Field Trip to the Forever War,” The New York Times, Sunday Review, December 2018
“Welcome to the Age of the Commando,” The New York Times, Sunday Review, January 2016
“How to Run a Successful Writing Workshop for Veterans,” The New York Times, At War, September 2013
“The Hut Next Door,” The New York Times, Home Fires, May 2011
“Remembering Mark,” The New York Times, At War, May 2011
“Pilgrim’s Progress,” The New York Times, Home Fires, January 2011
“Crime and Hollywood: Cherry and Hollywood’s Treatment of Robbers and Victims,” The Intercept, March 2021
“The Forever War Over War Literature,” The New Republic, July 2020
“Ernie and Me: an essay on Hemingway,” The Paris Review Daily, February 2016
“Michael Herr: 1940-2016,” The Paris Review Daily, June 2016
“Tim O’Brien: a Profile,” TIME Magazine, October 2019
“Uncle Sam’s Next-Gen Cyber Troops,” Wired, March 2018
“One Man’s Mad Journey to the Big Buck Hunter Championship,” Wired, May 2015
“Forty Years After the Fall: Vietnam War Lit in 2015,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2015
“On Culpability and Carrying the Gun: an Interview with Brian Turner,” Los Angeles Review of Books, September 2014
“Where’s the Great Novel About the War on Terror?” The Atlantic, June 2011
“A Ghost on Tobacco Road,” The Classical, February 2012
“How Does Our War in Syria End?” The Boston Globe, April 2017
“Trump Rejects the Muslims Who Helped Us,” The Boston Globe, January 2017
“Back Home Then, Back Home Now,” The Boston Globe, January 2016
“The Forever Soldiers of the Forever Wars,” Men’s Health, September 2021
“The Enduring Legacy of Pat Tillman,” Men’s Health, October 2018
“Plots Against America and Alternate Histories,” Boston Review, March 2020
“The Moral Responsibility of Volunteer Soldiers,” Boston Review, November 2013
“After the Slaughter,” Boston Review, March 2012
“Straight Shooter,” Boston Review, September/October 2011
“Four Days And Three Nights In The Post-Motor Motor City,” Transmission, November 2014
“War Games,” The Rumpus, December 2011
“How America Turned Against Veteran Presidents,” The Daily Beast, April 2017
“Deconstructing American Sniper,” The Daily Beast, February 2015
“A Night Along the Divide,” The Daily Beast, April 2013
“Did NBA Referees Snatch Destiny from the Sacramento Kings?” The Daily Beast, June 2012
Review of The Ukraine, by Artem Chapeye, The Wall Street Journal, February 2024
Review of The Fighters, by C.J. Chivers, The Wall Street Journal, August 2018
Review of On War and Writing, by Samuel Hynes, The Wall Street Journal, May 2018
Review of Shooting Ghosts, by Thomas Brennan and Finbarr O’Reilly, and Crossings, by Jon Kerstetter, The Wall Street Journal, September 2017
Review of Nevada Days, by Bernardo Axtaga, The Washington Post, July 2018
Review of Now & Again, by Charlotte Rogan, The Washington Post, April 2016
Review of The Eye You See With, by Robert Stone and Madison Smartt Bell, Literary Hub, April 2020
“Moral Courage Matters: On John Hersey’s A Bell for Adano,” The Millions, January 2016
Review of Thank You For Your Service, by David Finkel, The Daily Beast, October 2013
Review of Eleven Days, by Lea Carpenter, The Daily Beast, June 2013
Review of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain, The Daily Beast, May 2012
Review of The Operators, by Michael Hastings, The Daily Beast, January 2012
Review of Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins, The Rumpus, August 2012
Review of Shooting Up: a Short History of Drugs and War, by Lukasz Kamienski, The Intercept, March 2016
“In Defense of Once an Eagle,” TIME Magazine, Battleland, August 2011
Electric Literature, March 2024
CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, training civilians in Ukraine, March 2022
CNN, Smerconish, April 2022
Brooklyn Book Festival panel, “Soul of the City,” with N.K. Jemisin, Tochi Onyebuchi and Stephanie Anderson (moderator), October 2020
CNAS (Center for a New American Security) conversation with Teresa Fazio, author of Fidelis: A Memoir, September 2020
CNN, CNN Newsroom, September 2019
92Y, in conversation with David Petraeus, September 2016
NPR, All Things Considered, August 2016
CBS, CBS Sunday Morning video essay, March 2016
Columbia School of the Arts, March 2016
NPR, The Diane Rehm Show, February 2016
Electric Literature, February 2016
The Rumpus, September 2015
MTV News, September 2011
“Silent Posting,” by Ernesto Londono, The Washington Post, July 2008
Literature of War Podcast, February 2024
Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff, February 2024
Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff, March 2023
Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff, March 2022
The Spear, Modern War Institute at West Point, March 2022
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick, April 2022
Town Hall Seattle Arts & Culture Series: Interviewing Sebastian Junger, August 2021
Fiction/Non/Fiction, April 2021
The Author Stories Podcast with Hank Garner, May 2020
Incoming, May 2020
The History of Literature, February 2020
Hazard Ground, April 2018