Iris Murdoch Review 16, 2025

This special issue of the Iris Murdoch Review celebrates the flourishing work of North American and North American-related Iris Murdoch scholars and admirers. As J. Robert Baker’s account of the American beginnings and development of the Iris Murdoch Society itself makes clear, this keen engagement has been going on for decades. All Murdochians owe a debt of gratitude to the Society’s enterprising founder, the late Barbara Stevens Heusel. Her original invitation and challenge, ‘Won’t you join our society?’, which Baker takes as his title, is one we still enthusiastically issue today.

Contents:

• • Iris Murdoch, ‘Comic and Tragic’ (c.1963), with Introductory Notes by Daniel Read and Nicola Holt
  • David Fine, The White and the Good; or, How to See Colour in The Red and the Green
  • Lawrence Blum, Murdoch and Emmet on the ‘Social’ in Moral Life
  • David Bakhurst, Murdoch On Moral Philosophy and How It Should Be Done
  • Scott Moore, ‘Better sometimes to remain confused’?
  • Rose Solari, A Gift Across Time: How An Unofficial Rose Helped an American Writer Grapple with Her Own Family History
  • Daniel Hipp, Mingo in the Cave from The Nice and The Good: Observations upon the Novel’s Drafts from the University of Iowa’s Manuscripts

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