He has written two books, edited two others, and has published upward of twenty-six articles and book chapters. His first book, Lukacs Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism was widely and favorably reviewed in both the United States and Europe, while his second, forthcoming from Cambridge, The Wagner Enterprise: Making an Industry, is already being hailed as a fundamentally new approach to Wagner, a role model, ”the most exciting work in Wagner studies today.”