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“... Miranda July’s​ first feature film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and the Caméra d’Or at Cannes. July wrote, directed and acted in it, playing Christine, a fragile visual artist who moonlights as a taxi driver for the elderly ...”

“... others like it, for what it really is: geek lit. It’s only here, as in the worlds conjured by Miranda July or Benjamin Kunkel, that Gareth Van Meer would suggest that Blue write up her theory of who killed Hannah Schneider as ‘Mixed Nuts: Conspiracies and Anti-American Dissidents in Our Midst or Special Topics in Calamity Physics, something with a ...”

“... most frequently their boyfriends, with non sequiturs, odd questions and unexpected barbs, like a Miranda July or Sheila Heti character but meaner. The writing is only unmemorable because the existence Flattery depicts is too. The clipped quirkiness of her prose relieves the text of the burden of narrative, which to Flattery usually means tedious ...”

“... or slither round him. David Foster Wallace claimed ‘The Balloon’ made him want to be a writer; Miranda July keeps Flying to America on her bedside table; Jenny Offill returns regularly to ‘Not-Knowing’; and George Saunders has filled the slot for a satirical ‘vaudevillian’ at the New Yorker. In different ways, they are all figuring out what it ...”

“... Michael Clune​ first took heroin in July 1997. Afterwards, he lay on the roof of his friend Chip’s New York apartment: A single cloud moved through the blue sky … My eye was a glass box, and inside it there was no time. I kept the cloud inside it. I wish I could show it to you. I never imagined this could happen ...”

“... On 30 July 1914, it suddenly dawned on Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany was on the threshold of a war with three great powers. Panicking, he grabbed a recently arrived dispatch from St Petersburg and committed his agonised thoughts to paper in a frenzy of marginal scribbles. England was the author of Germany’s predicament, he scrawled ...”

“... others, before finally disintegrating when Shelley and Edward Williams were drowned off Leghorn in July 1822. Shortly thereafter, Byron and Trelawny embarked for Greece, Mary Shelley’s troubled and troubling step-sister Claire Clairmont departed to become a governess in Russia, and in 1823 Mary and her last surviving child returned to the England she had not ...”

“... asylum. This set off alarm bells. Morales left for home from Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on 2 July, on Bolivian Air Force flight 001 (a second-hand private jet, bought on the cheap off Manchester United). Someone must have suspected that Snowden was on board. The presidential flight was due to fly over Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, refuelling in the ...”

“... the Venezuelan ‘Precursor’ (and tireless plotter against the Spanish Empire), Francisco de Miranda; José de San Martín, the Argentine general; Bernardo O’Higgins, the Chilean national hero; Agustín de Iturbide, the Mexican; Emperor Pedro I of Brazil; and, finally, Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane, the astonishing Scottish maverick who played a key ...”

“... feet reading his works aloud together – was originally built in 1742: estate accounts from July of that year record the expenditure of £1 8s 6d on ‘Shells’ for what they call ‘Shakespear’s Cell’, and in November a further £6 5s 5d went to George Osboldstone and his men for ‘working about Shakespear’s Cell’. The figure presiding over ...”

“... but this no doubt involves more subtext than we are supposed to find. The Detroit riot began in July 1967 after a round-up at an illegal nightclub, and escalated rapidly into burnings and lootings. In the film we see the police trying to deal with these events, politicians trying to calm the populace down, and we learn that a major danger is sniper fire ...”

“... the pile awaiting the attention of the public prosecutor. Delphine’s lovers included Francisco Miranda, the revolutionary general and former lover of Catherine the Great; Joseph Fouché, one of Louis XVI’s executioners; Boissy d’Anglas, President of the Convention after Thermidor; and Chateaubriand, who like several of the others kept up a warm and ...”

“... bunny of American poetry. The bunny is getting rather long in the tooth – Ashbery turned 83 in July – and he has been writing the same book for more than 15 years. Each new model struts gorgeously down the runway, a bit aloof, a bit silly, and the critics can’t tell them apart. The New York Times’s reviewer found 2005’s Where Shall I Wander ‘both ...”

“... participating in massacres. The German occupiers looked on approvingly at the Riga pogrom of 1-2 July 1941, but they did not instigate it. The 12th Lithuanian Auxiliary Batallion was responsible for fifteen thousand deaths. Clare Thomson does not ignore these painful episodes, but treats them in a curious way. ‘Just as Stalin was able to rely on a certain ...”

“... their hands, murmurs a platitude, and they drop their two pesos in a collection box. The time is July 1952. But this ‘funereal farce’, as Borges puts it, is of course not the real thing. ‘The man in mourning was not Perón and the blonde doll was not the woman Eva Duarte, but then Perón was not Perón either, nor was Eva Eva.’ The implication ...”