A Song of Love and Death

The Meaning of Opera

1987

Behind the Mountain

1988

Cassell's History of English Literature

2003

Creation

Artists, Gods, and Origins

2007

Dickens the Enchanter

Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

2025

Having Epilepsy

The Experience and Control of Illness

1983

How The World Was Won

The Americanization of Everywhere

2014

Modern Times, Modern Places

1998

Mythomania

Tales of Our Times, from Apple to Isis

2017

Orson Welles

The Stories of His Life

2003

The History of English Literature

One Indivisible, Unending Book

1985

The Hitchcock Murders

2000

The Mysteries of Cinema

Movies and Imagination

2021

Verdi and/or Wagner

Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries

2011