Essays in which happiness becomes a magic carpet, lifting readers above momentary fret and making the ordinary appears wondrous.

Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is gu

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

An illustrated poem which celebrates children who enjoy doing all kinds of activities. This poem originally appeared in The Random House book of poetry for chil

A collection of twenty-nine essays written over the past forty years.