Iris Murdoch Review 15, 2024

Whilst each issue celebrates new publications and events, the variety is heightened this year with the focus on Murdoch’s love of conviviality and, especially, beermats. Originally planned for publication as a standalone work on this subject, I am delighted that we were able to include the majority of pieces here. The inclusion of these, and so many other wonderful articles and reviews, makes this year’s edition of the Review the most expansive yet. Contents:

• • Iris Murdoch, ‘A Woman Don’s Delight’
  • Iris Murdoch, ‘An After-Dinner Birthday Speech for J. B. Priestley’
  • Anne Rowe, ‘Iris Murdoch Twenty-Five Years On: Reputation and the Development of Murdoch Scholarship’
  • Daniel Read, ‘The Pub in Iris Murdoch’s Fiction’
  • Anne Rowe, ‘”Gone to the pub”: Iris Murdoch’s Beer Mats’
  • Dayna Miller, ‘Iris Murdoch’s Beer Mats: The Ephemera Effect’
  • Elin Svenneby, ‘Celebration, Consolation, and Distinction: Aspects of Champagne and Some Other Double-edged Drinks in Iris Murdoch’s Novels’
  • Rivka Isaacson, ‘”It depends on the liver”: Alcoholism, Detoxification, Regeneration and Wound-healing in A Fairly Honourable Defeat
  • Gary Browning, ‘Iris Murdoch and the Politics of Lived Experience’

Along with art, reviews, reports, and much more.