Selected Writing

Criticism

“Gambler-in-Chief: The Declining Value of Strategy in Trump’s World,” LA Review of Books, 2017

“Mentions: Burning Boy,” The Drift, 2022

“Mentions: Prima Facie,” The Drift, 2023

Essays

“How Do We Bury the Writing of the Dead?,” The Paris Review Daily, 2018

“How My Parents, Who Loved Grapes, Lost Their Love of Winemaking,” Catapult, 2019

“My Grandfather Journaled During His Time in a German POW Camp. More Than Anything, He Wrote About Food,” Heated, 2019

“The Evolution of the Tomb of the Unknowns,” The Atlantic, 2017

“The Poet-Soldier Who Went to His Grave With a Romantic Vision of World War I,” New York Times Magazine, 2018

“What You May Never Find During the Research Process,” Catapult, 2021

Reporting

“How a Small Newspaper Began the Tour de France,” LitHub, 2021

“Modern Wars Are a Nightmare for the Army’s Historians,” The Atlantic, 2017

“The Video Game That Could Shape the Future of War,” The Atlantic, 2017

“When the Tour de France Ran Through No Man’s Land,” The Daily Beast, 2021

Stories

“The First Floor,” No Contact, 2021

“Gaol,” No Contact, 2021

War Stories

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