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A scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider their cynicism when they confront a new student who, remarkably, has the same name as the 20th Century Catholic saint, Simone Weil . . .My Weil follows a group of twenty-something PhD students of the new-fangled subject Disaster Studies at an inferior university in Manchester, England, the post-industrial city of so much gre...

In a work of blistering dark hilarity, a young Nietzsche experiences life in a metal band & the tribulations of finals season in a modern secondary schoolWhen a new student transfers in from a posh private school, he falls in with a group of like-minded suburban stoners, artists, and outcasts-too smart and creative for their own good. His classmates nickname their new friend Nietzsche (for his braininess and bleak outlook on life), and decide ...

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In a raucous debut that summons up Britain's fabled Goon Squad comedies, writer and philosopher Lars Iyer tells the story of someone very like himself with a "slightly more successful" friend and their journeys in search of more palatable literary conferences and better gin. One reason for their journeys: the narrator's home is slowly being taken over by a fungus that no one seems to know what to do about. Before it completely swallows his hou...

The writer Hari Kunzru says "made me feel better about the Apocalypse than I have in ages" is back-with a hilarious coming-of-age love storyThe unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He's a melancholic, tormented genius who seems determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought.But Peters-a working-class student surprised to find himself among the elite-soon discovers ...

A new, philosophical novel from the author of the "Spurious" trilogy, for which he was shortlistd for the Goldsmiths Prize. A funny, eloquent and accessible campus novel. 'Iyer's weird talent continues to grow, ' Sam Jordison, "Observer"'s Books of the Year

The writer Hari Kunzru says "made me feel better about the Apocalypse than I have in ages" is back-with a hilarious coming-of-age love storyThe unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He's a melancholic, tormented genius who seems determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought.But Peters-a working-class student surprised to find himself among the elite-soon discovers ...

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Now in paperback, this is the story of a group of Cambridge students and the university professor who teaches and inspires them. It was nominated for the Goldsmiths Prize.

A plague of rats, the end of philosophy, the cosmic chicken, and bars that don't serve Plymouth Gin-is this the Apocalypse or is it just America? "The apocalypse is imminent, " thinks W. He has devoted his life to philosophy, but he is about to be cast out from his beloved university. His friend Lars is no help at all-he's too busy fighting an infestation of rats in his flat. A drunken lecture tour through the American South proves to be anoth...

A wickedly funny and satisfyingly highbrow black comedy about the collapse of Western academic institutions under the weight of neoliberal economics and crushing, widespread idiocy.Lars and W., the two preposterous philosophical anti-heroes of Spurious and Dogma-called "Uproarious" by the New York Times Book Review-return and face a political, intellectual, and economic landscape in a state of total ruination.With philosophy professors being m...

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