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Damian Maher

I am a Fellow by Examination at All Souls College, Oxford. I am currently working on the reception of Henry James among moral philosophers.

Works By Damian Maher

Hope Against Hope
Damian Maher reviews Susan Lever’s biography of A.D. Hope, which rounds out the picture of a poet known for his caustic satires and reviews. Reading Hope’s verse alongside Lever’s account, Maher examines Hope’s sexual and cultural politics.
27 Aug. 2026
The Caul of Radiance
Damian Maher considers The Seal Woman in light of Beverley Farmer’s fascination across her oeuvre with the threshold between life and death, rejuvenation and decay. Perhaps it is at this site of crossing where life is lived most vividly.
26 Sept. 2025
Absent Tidings
Reviewing Teju Cole’s most recent novel, Damian Maher grapples with the catalogues of loss, from private grief to historical calamity, strewn throughout Cole’s oeuvre. What are we to make of a melancholising art that leaves so much in the dark?
22 Nov. 2024