The new midlife crisis is hot, female and covered in tattoos – where do I sign?
Emma Beddington
Forget the sports car and affair with a personal trainer. My generation of women are reaching this life stage messily, sensually and full of rage, writes Emma Beddington
May 2024
Book of the day
All Fours by Miranda July review – a miraculous midlife road trip
‘I was in a kind of ecstatic freefall’: artist Miranda July on writing the book that could change your life
January 2024
2024 culture preview
Fiction to look out for in 2024
The first great lockdown novel, new tales from David Nicholls, Sarah Perry and Percival Everett, and Rachel Kushner’s contender for the Booker… next year promises to be special
July 2022
Ranked
Volcano films – ranked!
Missing the heatwave? With the release of Sara Dosa’s hotly tipped new documentary Fire of Love, we round up the most epic, exploding-mountain movies ever made
December 2021
Down the rabbit hole
What connects C’mon C’mon director Mike Mills to Kevin Keegan and Suzi Quatro?
Take a trip down the rabbit hole, visiting C’mon C’mon, REM, Happy Days and the 1982 World Cup along the way
October 2020
Kajillionaire review – quirky crime caper
The unloved daughter of scam artists is led astray by pancakes and dancing in Miranda July’s idiosyncratic comedy drama
Kajillionaire review – stylish band of scammers do the trick
Miranda July’s intriguing, deadpan comedy tracks the foibles and fortunes of a dysfunctional family of grifters
Teenage kicks
Miranda July's teenage obsessions: 'Bikini Kill were gods'
The Kajillionaire director on the allure of dripping honey, Jane Campion and Spike Lee, sex, lies and videotape, and her brother’s woodwork
September 2020
London film festival to be 'most accessible yet' as lineup unveiled
Organisers say they are ‘going big’ with screenings online and in independent cinemas
May 2020
Observer New Review Q&A
Miranda July: 'There's so much anarchistic potential for self-invention right now'
The film-maker on her new movie about con artists, the trials of home-schooling, and how Roseanne Barr inspired her own early rebellion
December 2019
The most anticipated movies of 2020
The most exciting movies of 2020 – crime films and thrillers
The Sopranos gets a prequel, Jennifer Lawrence jumps back into action and Jim Broadbent stars as a real-life cabbie who stole a Goya in next year’s buzziest crime capers and thrillers
A vulnerable drama student is exploited by her teacher in this experimental drama from Josephine Decker
May 2018
Half the Picture: calling time on Hollywood's macho leadership cliches
Amy Adrion’s new documentary rounds up 40 film-makers, including Ava DuVernay and Lena Dunham, to talk about systemic undermining of women in Hollywood
August 2017
Miranda July curates interfaith charity shop opening in Selfridges
Filmmaker works with Artangel and faith-based groups to celebrate ‘hope’ of charity shops inside luxury department store
February 2017
This much I know
Miranda July: ‘I always jump in when there’s an injustice’
The artist, writer and director, 42, on her fear of dogs, marrying a man she didn’t mean to and why she’s always ready to step in to right a wrong
December 2015
Best culture 2015
The best fiction of 2015
There were rich pickings from a host of top names including Kate Atkinson, Jonathan Franzen and Margaret Atwood. Plus we said goodbye to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld and revisted Harper Lee’s Scout Finch
November 2015
Miranda July: 'I'm always disappointing my dad politically'
Artist discusses whether her immersive stage show New Society worked, how it reflected US politics and why she had to be ‘hard-assed’
October 2015
New Society review - Miranda July's nation-building brings on tears
Bam, New York The artist and filmmaker’s immersive theatre piece isn’t as original as it could be – so why were audience members weeping at the end?
May 2015
Can Miranda July's Somebody app really make us talk to strangers?
July’s app enlists ordinary people to deliver your message – but after one week and 85 attempts, I didn’t speak to a stranger and a stranger didn’t speak to me
