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Fernando Flores can spend eight hours a day pouring the same cup of coffee. He is not a barista. He’s a robot puppeteer, trying to train…

I was eight, and through my bedroom wall I could hear my mother, Heidi, talking to herself as she prepared to go to sleep. Every night, in…

Around twenty years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I taught a class in a special observation room at my university’s…

The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of…

It’s 2018. I am, for the first time, in a classroom at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock, New York, a men’s maximum-security…