Journal of Alta California

Body and Soul

t’s difficult to be interested in modern American culture and not be at least nominally aware of Miranda July. The has called her a “prolific polymath.” That’s often shorthand for “dilettante,” but July is in no way trifling: Her novel was a bestseller and her stories appear and . She is a performance artist whose work winds up in museums. She’s an indie auteur whose films—, —win awards at Cannes and Sundance.

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