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In ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2,’ legendary fashion editor Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, starts to doubt her abilities and wonders when she should step aside. Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images via Getty Images

May 27, 2026

Older Americans are often compelled to keep working – and then criticized for not stepping aside

Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, University of North Dakota

Sometimes they hear they’re supposed to stay active and engaged. Other times they’re vilified for holding on to power too long. It’s all made ‘knowing when it’s time’ a whole lot harder.

Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci pose at the photo call for The Devil Wears Prada 2. Associated Press/Alamy

May 7, 2026

How The Devil Wears Prada 2 speaks the hidden language of fashion

Rebecca Scott, Cardiff University

The Devil Wears Prada 2 shows how fashion operates as a language of identity, signalling status, ambition and belonging.

Meryl Streep played the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly. Entertainment Pictures

May 1, 2026

How close reading took over the internet via The Devil Wears Prada’s cerulean monologue

Kate Travers, University of Warwick

We’re living in a golden age of close reading.

Meryl Streep as Miranda and Anne Hathaway as Andie. Disney

April 30, 2026

The Devil Wears Prada 2: lots of frothy fun, not so much devilry

Laura O'Flanagan, Dublin City University

Meryl Streep’s performance may lack bite, but seeing Hathaway, Streep, Blunt and Tucci together again is joyful and escapist.

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