Lars Iyer, Melville (Random, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-935554-28-8
Two friends drink, walk in the English countryside, and talk (and talk and talk) in Iyer's playfully cerebral debut. The action—what there is of it—revolves around an unnamed Hindu narrator and his frenemy, a mopey professor known as W., who harbors
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Lars Iyer. Melville (Random, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (224) ISBN 978-1-61219-046-4
Iyer's sequel to Spurious (and the second in an as-yet-incomplete trilogy) can best be labeled a "philosopher's novel," insofar as it suffers from many of the shortcomings that generally turn readers off philosophical literature: it's abstract and...
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Lars Iyer. Melville, $15.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1612191829
Lars and W. return to complete Iyer's dialogic trilogy about these two "friends of thought." W.'s position at the university has been saved from termination by a legal technicality, but since they've still closed the humanities department in which...
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Lars Iyer. Melville House (Random, dist.), $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-61219-376-2
Fresh from his acclaimed Spurious Trilogy (Spurious, Dogma, and Exodus), Iyer mines the history of Western philosophy in this unlikely fusion of a campus novel with high slapstick. Set at Cambridge, the story concerns a contemporary philosophy...
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Lars Iyer. Melville House, $16.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-61219-812-5
In this devastatingly withering follow-up to 2014’s Wittgenstein Jr., Iyer turns his keen eye and sharp sense of humor to the suburbs. There’s a new boy in the London suburb of Wokingham, recently transferred from a posh private school after he lost
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Lars Iyer. Melville House, $17.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-68589-060-5
Iyer (Nietzsche and the Burbs) delves into the lives of a group of PhD students in this satirical outing. Johnny, the narrator, leads a misfit band of philosophers as they procrastinate writing their dissertations and ponder the concept of the...
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