He was a Harold Hyam Wingate Scholar in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow in 2001 and the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud Museum in 2008.
[9] In a 2018 interview with the Church Times, he commented that faith has become an unfashionable literary subject because "religion has been hijacked by extremists on all sides".
She argued, "There are echoes of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in the way Arditti explores faith through the complicated, genteel Granville family.
But whereas Waugh focused on Roman Catholicism, Arditti ranges across a wide spectrum of religious belief: Anglicanism, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism are all brought into the story.
"[12] Christian House, reviewing Arditti's The Breath of Night for the Independent in 2013, commented that "The novel broaches a curious irony of contemporary society; that when it is crippled by rage, fear and materialism, when the need of spiritual sustenance is acute, it has become increasingly secular".
[14] Reviewing The Anointed for the Financial Times in 2020, Rebecca Abrams noted that his "boldest innovation is his handling of religious orthodoxy and its close entanglement with political power".