Iyer implies that a better or "older" world, where literature could still exist, would be one where his own writing couldn't. The presumption here is that Spurious and its sequel are "signs of the times," and thus that books can still sum up the epoch in which they're written: surely a "literary" aim, if ever there was one. Perhaps Iyer's is a literary project par excellence. Presenting his novels as symptoms or symbols, he slightly uncritically slips into sync with one of W.'s dictums in Dogma: "always write as though your ideas were world-historical."

from the great David Winters' review of Dogma for The Rumpus.