The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming fall of 2010)

Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/ Sarah Crichton, 2008)

The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr. (New York and London: Continuum International Publishing, 2007)

The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred Machines (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006)

Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film (New York and London: Continuum International Publishing, 2006)

Coleridge’s Melancholia: An Anatomy of Limbo (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004)

The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

Romantic Turbulence: Chaos, Ecology, and American Space (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000)

Emerson's Sublime Science (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999)