Rivka Isaacson receives funding from the UK Research and Innovation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. When I first began appropriating the plots of British-Irish novelist Iris ...

When acclaimed British novelist Iris Murdoch released her 26th novel, Jackson's Dilemma, in 1995, it took a beating in many reviews. Writer A.S. Byatt said the characters "have no selves and therefore ...

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It’s said that time is cyclical, repeating patterns like the annual arrival of summer—though each summer is different. When I read about a young politician who succumbed to stress, this cyclical ...

An old oak chest filled with notebooks of hand-written poems by Iris Murdoch has been unearthed in the writer's Oxford attic, leading to the discovery of hundreds of unpublished works. Dr Miles Leeson ...

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