Similarly [to Terry Eagleton] Willy Maley writes across theoretical, critical, and literary genres, although one might say that his creative writing is influenced by a theoretical tendency rather than explicitly reflects one. This is in contrast to Lars Iyer whose trilogy of short novels Spurious (2011), Dogma (2012) and Exodus (2013) are an account of what it means to have been a humanities academic in the UK since the 1980s and how theory has circulated around the lives of scholars and in the new university of ���excellence��� and human capital. In this sense, these novels are not mimetic but are inculcated within the institutions and discourses they describe, leaving their own mark within them, consciously philosophical, and opening the topic in the manner of speculative inquiry.

From Martin McQuillan���s introduction to Critical Practice: Philosophy and Creativity.