The Iris Murdoch Review

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.