Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026No, although there is some Nabokovian influence on The Black Prince. 010
Reposted by Iris MurdochBooks on GIF @booksongif.com · 11/10/2026I’ve been in an introspective mood recently, so it was the perfect time for me to read this book. I was engaged by its philosophical purpose to untangle and understand what makes a person good as opposed to one who’s merely nice. booksongif.substack.com/p/the-nice-a...booksongif.substack.com‘The Nice and the Good’ by Iris MurdochWelcome to Iris Murdoch-tober, Year Two!—Review #291 021
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not visible from the other end of the house? In any event it'll be visible after the renovations. 030
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026New Iris Murdoch Podcast episode! This time we're discussing Henry and Cato on the fiftieth anniversary of publication. soundcloud.com/user-5488042...soundcloud.comHenry and Cato PodcastIn this episode Miles discusses Murdoch's eighteenth novel, Henry and Cato, on the 50th anniversary of its publication. Joining him are James Bowen (Oxford University) and Frances White (Chichester U 091
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In case you were wondering, the 'adult content' is an image of Bronzino's Venus and Cupid. Nothing too racy - sorry! 020
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026When are you planning to visit? We might be able to arrange a tour. 110
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Excellent! We should do something Murdoch-related at the BL... 020
Reposted by Iris MurdochGreg Buzwell @gregbuzwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’ve recently had a cold, and when not wistfully admiring the sunshine through the window I’ve been reading The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch. One of her best, in my view. I like this old Penguin edition with its delightful early 70s cover - dark, enigmatic and strange like the novel itself. 1131
Reposted by Iris MurdochDarius Parvizi-Wayne @dariusparviziwayne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Very much enjoyed dialoging with John Vervaeke on the Love and Philosophy podcast. We focus on Iris Murdoch and The Sovereignty of Good, discussing Frankfurt, Heidegger and much more along the way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8lE...youtube.comLove, Attention & Meaning with John Vervaeke & Darius Parvizi-Wayne (and Iris Murdoch)YouTube video by Love & Philosophy with Andrea Hiott 042
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Never to return? She was publishing philosophy up until 1992, and writing it up to 1995! 110
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We had a great time this morning exploring the paintings that appear in Murdoch's novels. 021
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It is now under new ownership and being renovated. Come and see the exhibition! 010
Reposted by Iris MurdochGiles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Iris Murdoch's paintings unearthed and exposed: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.uk'A thrill' to find unknown Iris Murdoch artwork in Oxford atticAn expert on the author describes discovering 80 unknown works by the writer in Oxford. 1196
Reposted by Iris MurdochBooks on GIF @booksongif.com · 28/09/2026It’s almost October, a month known at Books on GIF as ‘Iris Murdoch-tober.’ We’ll kick off our second-annual celebration of Iris Murdoch’s work with a novel that several BoG readers have recommended to me: ‘The Nice and the Good.’ Join us! 085
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New blogpost on Murdoch, Rumer Godden, and Muriel Spark. irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2026/09/23/t...irismurdochsociety.org.ukTales from the Cloister: Godden, Murdoch and Spark - The Iris Murdoch SocietyThe retreat from the secular world to a religious order was certainly not unusual prior to the Second World War, particularly for artists, but for these three novelists the impact that Stanbrook in pa... 020
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New Iris Murdoch Podcast episode!! m.soundcloud.com/user-5488042...m.soundcloud.comIris Murdoch and Shakespeare PodcastPlay Iris Murdoch and Shakespeare Podcast by The Iris Murdoch Podcast on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. 033
Reposted by Iris MurdochPast Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today is the final episode in our series about the relationship between 20th-century biography & philosophy. David talks to Nikhil Krishnan about the life & thought of Iris Murdoch, a deeply philosophical novelist & a fully committed philosopher. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com 1209
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This might help! on.soundcloud.com/r64tlFDuOEMI...soundcloud.comThe Red and the Green PodcastIn this episode Miles is joined by Ian D'alton (Trinity College, Dublin) and Frances White (University of Chichester) to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Murdoch's ninth novel, The Red and The Green. 020
Reposted by Iris MurdochBen Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 16/09/2026'Freedom is exercised in the confrontation by each other, in the context of an infinitely extensible work of imaginative understanding, of two irreducibly dissimilar individuals. Love is the imaginative recognition of, that is respect for, this otherness' (Iris Murdoch, 'The Sublime and the Good'). 093
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Iris gave up Existentialism in the late 1940s - O'Hagan is clearly out of date! 020
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Murdoch was never an existentialist, save a brief flirtation in the 1940s prior to writing novels. Brookner, however, is very much underrated. 021
Reposted by Iris MurdochOrdo Fraterna Fibonacci @ordofibonacci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Julia Driver: Literature and Moral Sensibility in Iris Murdoch (Royal Institute of Philosophy) youtu.be/6kQoGU8ptR8?...youtu.beJulia Driver: Literature and Moral Sensibility in Iris Murdoch (Royal Institute of Philosophy)YouTube video by The Royal Institute of Philosophy 032
Reposted by Iris MurdochLiterature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Live online course. Iris Murdoch and Marriage with Miles Leeson. Sundays, fortnightly, from 10 January 2027. The Sandcastle A Severed Head A Fairly Honourable Defeat The Sacred and Profane Love Machine The Book and the Brotherhood www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-marr... 022
Reposted by Iris MurdochThe Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“When you begin a novel you are in a state of unlimited freedom, and this is alarming.” —Iris Murdoch buff.ly/3QjNdJ8buff.lyIris Murdoch, The Art of Fiction No. 117“You can’t write a traditional novel without giving your characters moral problems and judgments.” 0203
Reposted by Iris MurdochSomerville College, Oxford @somervillecollege.bsky.social · 08/09/2026An excellent episode of Great Lives on our alumna Iris Murdoch!bbc.co.ukGreat Lives - Russell Kane on Iris Murdoch - BBC SoundsFamous guests pick someone they love or admire... or both 193
Reposted by Iris MurdochBrian Libby @brianlibby.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Just finished my second Iris Murdoch novel (after The Bell — superb) and was ultimately quite moved. There was a moment midway when I briefly lost faith as it became almost over-the-top farcical. But by novel’s end I was hooked again. A profound exploration of mortality, hubris, regret and love. 292
Reposted by Iris MurdochBarb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This afternoon at 15:00 📻 #IrisMurdoch www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Russell Kane on Iris MurdochFamous guests pick someone they love or admire... or both 041
Reposted by Iris MurdochAnnie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026“We've all got things to cry about. Don't you think I could drown the world with tears if I started on my own woes?” - A Word Child by Iris Murdoch #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics 1102
Reposted by Iris MurdochLiz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My report from the Iris Murdoch Society Conference I went to in August: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/t... 073
Reposted by Iris MurdochHelena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026reposting this old post of Isaac's because I just finished The Bell and, just like when I read The Sea, The Sea last year, I'm so over-the-moon about how great it was that I'm doing embarrassing stuff like name-searching Iris Murdoch on here to see who else feels the same way 4263
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026static.klipy.comForrest Gump (Tom Hanks) Waves HelloALT: Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) Waves Hello 000
Reposted by Iris Murdochwww.egan @wwwegan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I'm reading Iris Murdoch for the first time. Wow! 2162
Reposted by Iris MurdochJacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026'He began, hazily, to reflect on how he had formerly felt that his religion and his passions sprang from the same source, and how this had seemed to infect his religion with corruption. It now seemed to him that he could turn the argument about...' #BookSky jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/t...jacquiwine.wordpress.comThe Bell by Iris MurdochFirst published in 1958, The Bell was Iris Murdoch’s fourth book, a sophisticated, richly textured novel that explores complicated feelings between complex individuals, encompassing faith, guilt, r… 3167
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Check out the website and podcast! Www.irismurdochsociety.org.ukirismurdochsociety.org.ukWelcome to the Iris Murdoch Society - The Iris Murdoch SocietyWelcome to the Iris Murdoch Society Website. The society exists to champion the work, and celebrate the life, of the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch: one of the most important […] 120
Reposted by Iris MurdochJago 🍂 @jagodesu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I've started after the movie Iris came out, and I got curious, loved The Sea, the Sea, and then started collecting them over a few years, new and second hand on a trip in the UK. 151
