Michael Lokesson

Michael Lokesson has written for The New York Times, National Geographic, Time, The Daily Beast, Salon, and many others. A former Navy officer, he currently lives in Los Angeles. He is at work on a (non-war) novel.

A Literary Wolf

William Giraldi's "Hold the Dark" is an uncompromising book. In its language. In its outlook. In its journey....

MICHAEL LOKESSON

FICTION

War and Insurgency

IT’S EASY to understand why David Bellos and his publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, chose to bring out the French author Daniel Anselme’s debut novel On Leave in its first English translation. First published in France during the height ...

MICHAEL LOKESSON

LITERARY FICTION

The Things We Wrote About: The Author of Redeployment on Military Conflict, the Craft of Fiction, and Coming Home

Klay’s nearly universally acclaimed collection — about our experiences of warfare, on the ground and on the homefront — though promising, is deeply flawed....

MICHAEL LOKESSON

LITERARY FICTION

Cold Redemption

MICHAEL LOKESSON

Passive Aggression: Recent War Novels

MICHAEL LOKESSON