Aids to perception: Three long and three short books

This essay effectively draws together the best insights into reality and how it can be portrayed, especially in fiction, so that by the end you will not wish to read (or write) anything that does not deliberately and artfully engage both reality’s immanence and its transcendence. It is not for readers who rarely stray beyond “pop” (such as my beloved mysteries). But for a 63-page manifesto, it is immensely rewarding.