Books
- The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
- W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety: a Baroque Eclogue, edited by me (Princeton: Princeton University Press, March 2011).
- Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010).
- Original Sin: a Cultural History (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2008).
- Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).
- The Narnian: the Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (San Francisco: Harper, and London: SPCK, 2005). Winner, Christianity Today 2006 Book Award, History/Biography Category. Winner, 2006 John Pollock Award for Christian Biography. German translation (Der Mann aus Narnia) published in 2007 by Johannis Verlag.
- Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004). October main selection, the Anglican Book Club.
- A Theology of Reading: the Hermeneutics of Love (Boulder and New York: Westview Press, 2001), hardcover and paperback.
- A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2001). Co-Winner, Christianity Today 2002 Book Award, Christianity and Culture category. Audio version (read by the author) produced by Mars Hill Audio in 2002; this is now available in a downloadable MP3 form.
- What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden’s Poetry (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998).
- Must Christianity be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology, ed. with Kenneth R. Chase (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2003).
Essays etc.
You can find a nearly complete list of my shorter writings — the ones available online, anyway — at my New Atlantis bio page.
changed September 30, 2011