UCSB Arts & Lectures presents An Evening with Miranda July 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20 at UCSB Campbell Hall. The audience is invited to join July, a celebrated author, filmmaker and performance artist ...

Miranda July has a quirky strategy for fighting the agents of distraction, from cell phones to gossip magazines: trap them and hold them hostage. This sequence didn't quite make it into her feature ...

Miranda July's film Me and You and Everyone We Know captured the mood of a generation –- and its attention. In this first book of stories, we find the same fear of paralysis, the same narcotized, ...

Miranda July is known for her prolific and expansive body of work, which includes performance art; her films Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), The Future (2011), and Kajillionaire (2020); and ...

As a director, July coaxes terrific performances from just about everyone. It’s July herself who proves so irritating on-screen. Nothing about her feels authentic; even her spontaneity has a ...

When it comes to Miranda July's rise, The New York Times has been along seemingly for the whole ride. This weekend, The Times does the inevitable and profiles the Los Angeles-based artist and ...

CHICAGO — Miranda July's new project We Think Alone blurs the lines between a public confession and a private thought, asking participants Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lena Dunham, Kirsten Dunst, Sheila Heti, ...

Stephanie Mackley vividly remembers reading the end of Miranda July’s novel “All Fours” shortly after it came out in 2024: She was lying on a beach towel in her front yard, next to the raised beds and ...

July is something of a magician, and somewhere amid the inability to stop time, the finality of unborn children, the failure to protect posterity, the end of romantic love, the limitations of memory, ...

The first sentence of Miranda July's debut novel, "The First Bad Man," suggests the almost surreal self-absorption of its problematic narrator: "I drove to the doctor's office as if I was starring in ...

Filmmaker Miranda July is a true original and she gives us a glimpse into her creative process in her Guest DJ set – from the song that inspires her to sit down and write to how she chose music for a ...

While July’s attention on sexual matters seems a bit extreme, perhaps it’s an accurate reflection of today’s culture. Certainly, kids are exposed now to things — chat rooms and X-rated websites — that ...