In the early hours of the morning, a TikTok video titled “Does Japanese with a California valley girl accent = Simlish?” popped up on my For You page. The algorithm knows me too well. In the video, ...

Doing exercises in a book was très terrible. A friend suggested something more radical. By Rachel Kushner There’s a scene I love in the movie “Husbands,” when John Cassavetes, performing in his own ...