(RNS) — The celebrated British novelist Iris Murdoch, who would have turned 100 this week, anticipated young Americans' attempt to find goodness without God.

For Iris Murdoch, the life worth leading is a life that leads to others, to a beyond, to an other. Magical Thinking Not surprisingly, Murdoch often mentions religion as another source of unselfing.

“Iris Murdoch and John Bayley were familiar figures during my undergraduate years at Oxford in the mid-1950s, cycling around town together”, wrote Philip French in this week’s Observer.

Four years after Iris Murdoch's death, her husband is selling the working library of nearly 1,000 books collected and annotated by the late author over six decades, auctioneers said Monday.

HOW does one describe Iris Murdoch? Let us count the ways: distinguished Oxford philosopher, prize-winning novelist, dramatist, critic, passionate student. One of England's charming blue-eyed ...

The Green Knight By Iris Murdoch Viking, 472 pages, $23.95 Victoria Glendinning, in her biography of Elizabeth Bowen, mentions the Anglo-Irish writer’s admiration of Iris Murdoch and especially ...

Iris Murdoch might seem like an unlikely candidate for praise from America reviewers, but her philosophical novels about love and alienation earned many praise-filled reviews over the years.

The actress is now backing calls for the UK government to improve access to early and accurate diagnoses of dementia within ...

Iris Murdoch wrote novels about the only things that matter – love, goodness and how to be happy without hurting others (The Independent) The honest answer is probably The Bell by Iris Murdoch ...