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Lars Iyer

Lars Iyer is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of two books on Blanchot (Blanchot's Communism and Blanchot's Vigilance: Phenomenology, Literature, Ethics) and his blog Spurious. He has also written two novels, Spurious and Dogma, published by Melville House in 2012

November 2015

  • Students at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.

    Paperback writer
    Lars Iyer: 'Real philosophers feel a burning sense of vocation'

    A contemporary version of Wittgenstein, my central character has much in common with the great thinker, but faces hard challenges in the modern university

February 2012

  • Waiting for Godot

    Top 10s
    Lars Iyer's top 10 literary frenemies

    From Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, the novelist picks out the writers who portray true friendship as an antagonistic business
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