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’Miranda July has forged a large artistic presence working in small spaces: in other words, in intimate emotional terrain. She does it in her two feature films, which focus on the hermetic zones of romantic and interpersonal relationships, and it happens in her poignant, peculiar novel, The First Bad Man. It’s evident in her uncommonly revealing re