Miles Leeson

A madcap plot, philosophical shenanigans and raucous scenes — Under the Net, published in 1954, must have shone brightly through the postwar gloom thetimes.com/culture/books/…

“Attentive use of the imagination is, unlike fantasy, not a way to escape the world into a daydream but the route by which we become positive agents within the world,” argues @miles_leeson. | iai.tv/articles/imagi… Tap to read more about Leeson’s exploration of Iris Murdoch’s…

Missed last night's Birthday Lecture with @miles_leeson? No need to worry, we've got it here: soundcloud.com/user-548804258…

'The Bell by Iris Murdoch....I read it at 16 and it was perhaps the first time I realised that a novel, if perfectly executed, could be about absolutely anything.' theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

Cover Reveal! Coming soon from @ChattoBooks, @IrisMurdoch's Selected Poetry! With a preface by novelist Sarah Hall. Full details and pre-order via the link. penguin.co.uk/books/470920/p… @PenguinUKBooks

BRILLIANT BLUE IS OUT TODAY!! 🥳🥳👏👏🥂 What a thing - to know my stories are officially out there in the world. Available in paperback and ebook from the wonderful Barbican Press and Amazon. @BarbicanPress1 🥳🥳

You can now book for the annual Iris Murdoch Birthday Lecture! 'Lampooning Iris: Jaundiced Views and Academic Questions' Full details via the link👇 irismurdochsociety.org.uk/event/iris-mur…

New @IrisMurdoch Podcast Episode! I'm joined by #LesleyJamieson from @UniPardubice for the second instalment of our close reading of Murdoch's 'Existentialists and Mystics'. soundcloud.com/user-548804258…

'Learned people, intellectuals, have lost their confidence, their kind of protest is being esoteric. And at the other end it's smashing things. There's a gap where the theories ought to be, where the thinking ought to be.' @IrisMurdoch, 1987

New @IrisMurdoch Podcast Episode! We're starting a new miniseries of episodes reading the entirety of 'Existentialists and Mystics' - her collected non-fiction - over the course of the next year or so. Join us on the journey... soundcloud.com/user-548804258…

New Iris Murdoch Podcast Episode! I talk to @LucyOulton about her new book, 'Iris Murdoch's Wild Imagination: Nature and the Environment' which is published today from @Palgrave. soundcloud.com/user-548804258… @PalgravePhil

New @IrisMurdoch Podcast episode! I talk to Mark Hopwood from @univofthesouth about his new book, The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch, from @routledgebooks. soundcloud.com/user-548804258…

The Easter Rebellion against British rule began #OTD 1916. Iris Murdoch describes its eve as tension mounts through rain-soaked Dublin streets; and if, in the end, death disperses most of the people, this is felt to be as inevitable as in a Sophoclean play.

Join us at Honors for a Lunch & Lecture on Wednesday, April 23 at 1 p.m. with Dr. Miles Leeson, director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester. RSVP by April 17 at: thehonorscollege.com/iris to learn more about this major 20th century writer.

Now available to pre-order! The first collection on @IrisMurdoch's theological thinking in decades. Huge thanks to all our contributors and @PalgravePhil for the support. Out in July. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ…

Oh, Iris Murdoch was a Platonist. Now it all made sense! She was brilliant!

A new podcast on Iris Murdoch's 'A Year of Birds' (poetry) has just been released! Featuring @miles_leeson in conversation with @earreadthis. open.spotify.com/episode/6vSuIf…

Next year's @IrisMurdoch online course from @litcamb has just been confirmed. Full details via the link: literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026

New @IrisMurdoch Podcast! I'm joined by Bridget Clarke (@umontana) to discuss her new book on Murdoch in the @CambridgeUP Series on Women in the History of Philosophy. soundcloud.com/user-548804258

Looking forward to being in Texas later this month at @Baylor talking about (who else?) @IrisMurdoch.