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The Conversation: Iris Murdoch: what the writer and philosopher can teach us about friendship

Iris Murdoch: what the writer and philosopher can teach us about friendship

The New Yorker: The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch

Los Angeles Times: Writer John Bayley, Iris Murdoch’s widower, dies at 89

In 1974, the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch wrote to her friend Naomi Lebowitz, a professor of English and comparative literature at Washington University, in St. Louis, to ask, “what am I ...

It has been nearly two years since Iris Murdoch's death from Alzheimer's and the publication of her husband John Bayley's memoir Elegy for Iris. It seems fitting that the beloved philosopher and ...

Iris is a dull and uninspired film focusing on the mental deterioration of British novelist Iris Murdoch, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, the neurodegenerative condition, from 1995 until her ...

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The New York Times: On the Centennial of Iris Murdoch’s Birth, Remembering a 20th-Century Giant

People who met the British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) tended to want to describe her. She had big, round blue eyes, strawlike hair and a broad face with high cheekbones. She ...

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Naija Gist - Latest: On the centennial of Iris Murdoch's birth, remembering a 20th-century giant

(Critic’s Notebook): People who met British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919-99) tended to want to describe her. She had big, round blue eyes, strawlike hair and a broad face with high ...

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The New York Times: The Intimate, Luminous Poems Found in Iris Murdoch’s Attic

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