Nick Reynolds from #ChiUni has produced a wonderful suite of music based on works by Iris Murdoch. Take a listen! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Come and join us if you're in the area. Or catch the editors out on the road at various events over the next six months or so. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Iris Murdoch talk in December!

The Monist invites you to submit a manuscript for a thematic issue on the philosophy of Iris Murdoch. Submissions that go beyond textual exegesis to consider how Murdochian approaches might open up new perspectives on central questions in moral philosophy welcomed: oxford.ly/4gDcI3K

The new exhibition at the Iris Murdoch Archives at Kingston University - 'Iris Murdoch: Rhyme and Reason', is now open! If you're in Kingston though, why not visit the exhibition in person. It's free and accessible to all, everyday from 10am-4pm until 15th January 2026 (excluding bank holidays!).

'I feel strongly about a number of things and don't say enough. I think it's the job of any intellectual in society to make comments. From 1968, an interview with Iris Murdoch: thelondonmagazine.org/archive-iris...

'In the poetry I am trying to change my old wicked god into a good god, but to change our gods we have to change ourselves.' Publishing with @ChattoBooks on 06.11.25 www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...

“So I am writing my life, after all, as a novel! Why not? It was a matter of finding a form, and somehow history, my history, has found the form for me...so my novel can still be a sort of memoir and a sort of diary.” The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch

New Iris Murdoch Podcast Episode! soundcloud.com/user-5488042...

Walking with The Black Prince - April 2026. Join us. irismurdochsociety.org.uk/event/walk-b...

CFP: Philosophy After Murdoch. academic.oup.com/monist/pages...

We're excited to announce our new Online Seminar Series for the 2025-6 academic year!! We have 5 fantastic talks coming up. For titles and abstracts see our website - and get the dates in your diary! www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/ #philsky #philosophy

“I have considered writing a journal, not of happenings for there will be none, but as a record of mingled thoughts and daily observations: ‘my philosophy’, my pensées against a background of simple descriptions of the weather and other natural phenomena.“ (The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch)

William Golding bought one of her pictures and Iris Murdoch collected three. ✍️ Michael Kurtz

"I will not attempt to describe how I got through the next few days. There are desolations of the spirit which can only be hinted at. I sat there huge-eyed in the wreck of myself." - Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

The new Iris Murdoch Society podcast season begins with a celebration of 'A Word Child' on its 50th Anniversary. soundcloud.com/user-5488042... A new episode every fortnight.

Applications are open for the Barbara Stevens Heusel Research Fund for Early-Career Scholars. Closing date 1st November. Full details via the website: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/about/the-ir...

Your Bank Holiday reading...connecting Murdoch with Dante. www.brutimes.com/news/ireland...

New Blogpost: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/08/13/m...

The philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch insists that love is not only morally relevant, but absolutely central to morality

'I don’t in fact feel too much identification with the ass that I was... How little work figures in this record – except for philosophy as I used to do it, & that very boring. The things which deeply sustain –the novels – get little mention.' Journal, November 1968

Loved this super dark and fucked up story - like an anti-romcom - from the 60s: A SEVERED HEAD by Iris Murdoch.

25% off the 'Iris Murdoch Today' series and much more besides! link.springer.com/series/16775

The new book has arrived! Very pleased to add this to the 'Iris Murdoch Today' collection from @springernature.com, all eight of which were published in the past three years. Full details here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

IRIS MURDOCH! In this episode, we discuss Ch. 6 of Cusk’s ‘Outline’ alongside an essay by Murdoch called ‘The Idea of Perfection’. In this essay, Murdoch argues that the way we pay attention to the world is ethically significant. @artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl-che.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

Finally reading 'the sea, the sea'...cannot. put. it. down. In awe of Murdoch's ability to enflesh philosophical concepts in characters.

Coming up in September with @litcamb.bsky.social - a new course on five female authors from the mid-late 20th Century... www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/women-p...

I realised that I didn't put out an OA version of another article on Iris Murdoch, from last year. 'Vocation, Hypocrisy and Secularization: Iris Murdoch and the Clergy of the Church of England' Studies in Church History 60 (2024) Summary post and free PDF at: peterwebster.me/2025/07/31/i...

I've read 16 Booker prize winning books in my challenge to read all the winners. Also I've drawn around 25 author bookmarks. With Iris Murdoch & Salman Rushdie completed today 😊 #BookSky 📚💙 #booklover #bookerprize #art #bookmark #pencildrawing #portrait

Tell me you've just started an Iris Murdoch novel without telling me you've just started an Iris Murdoch novel @backlisted.bsky.social

New Blogpost! Elizabeth Whittome discusses Murdoch's 'A Word Child' and 'Hassan', a play by James Elroy Flecker. irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/07/28/m...

Publication Day! The new collection, Iris Murdoch and the Western Theological Imagination, is now available from @springernature.com, here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thanks to contributors @tashaalden.bsky.social @peterwebster.bsky.social and many more not on here.

“Attentive use of the imagination is, unlike fantasy, not a way to escape the world into a daydream but the route by which we become positive agents within the world,” argues Miles Leeson. | iai.tv/articles/ima... Tap to read more. #philsky

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And you can, too! irismurdochsociety.org.uk/product/iris...

Why Iris Murdoch is excellent and why it matters! litkicks.com/ringing-the-...

Missed last night's Birthday Lecture? Not to worry, we've got you covered. soundcloud.com/user-5488042...

Novelist & philosopher, Dame Iris Murdoch, would have been 106 today. To celebrate her life and remember her birthday, explore an issue of MFS including a 1987 interview. #ReadUP - bit.ly/lirismurdoch Thank you @hopkinspress.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social

Novelist & philosopher Iris Murdoch was born on this date in 1919. Earlier this year, as part of our #WiseWomen series, Josh & Ray explored Murdoch’s life & thought with Eva-Maria Düringer from @unituebingen.bsky.social—more at philosophytalk.org/shows/iris-murdoch. #PhilSky @altnehgov.altgov.info

A rogues' gallery of Murdoch characters...spot a favourite?

@irismurdoch.bsky.social On Murdoch's Birthday why not consider joining the Iris Murdoch Society? irismurdochsociety.org.uk/product/memb... Receive the brilliant Iris Murdoch Review, keep up to date with scholarship, new publications, symposia etc via the newsletter & get reduced rates on IM events

Murdoch is a rare, almost unique treasure. No philosopher made the sort of contribution to literature that Murdoch did. A novelist of the highest caliber. My three favorites: The Black Prince The Sea, The Sea A Fairly Honorable Defeat

'The Bell by Iris Murdoch....I read it at 16 and it was perhaps the first time I realised that a novel, if perfectly executed, could be about absolutely anything.' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Only like halfway through this but my God this is the creepiest dude I've ever read. What a freak stalker Ngl, he also just majorly gives Roquentin in Sartre's Nausea

Feeling slightly unhinged from the July heat and lack of air conditioning; considering getting the young-middle-aged Iris Murdoch cut this summer, tousled and boyish with blunt bangs.

Cover Reveal! Coming in November from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social - Chatto & Windus. Iris Murdoch's Selected Poetry, with a preface by Sarah Hall. Full details via the link: www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...

she is so good at describing situations

Iris Murdoch-tober. Who’s in?