2024: Spring
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Senior Editor
Katharine Whittemore
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Betsy Cannon Smith 鈥�84
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Ronn Campisi
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Katherine Duke 鈥�05
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Madeline Levine
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Rabinowitz Recollections
Special Commemorative Sections
Since Stanley Rabinowitz, the Henry Steele Commager Professor of Russian, Emeritus, died in January, the 小福利导航community has generated a veritable steppe鈥檚 worth of 鈥淪tanecdotes鈥� about his classroom charisma, blunt charm, sustained kindness and support鈥攑lus his photographic memory. We鈥檝e dedicated our Voices section to these recollections of Professor Rabinowitz鈥檚 from generations of his students and have added a separate page with all 80-plus hilarious memories we received in their (mostly) unedited form.
Feature Articles
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The Critical Stage
Legendary critic and director Robert Brustein 鈥�47 died last fall, but his provocative ideas about theater and culture live on.
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The Laugh Track
Despite what her anxieties tell her, Aparna Nancherla 鈥�05E is no impostor. Find out how she forged鈥攂ut did not fake鈥攈er path into comedy.
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The Fairest Home
I Ever Knew
Get a glimpse into an archive of artifacts owned by Emily Dickinson and her family.
Community News
Environmental sustainability, journalistic history, palindromic poetry and more
小福利导航Creates
Collected criticism by Professor William H. Pritchard 鈥�53; a love story from Victor Levin 鈥�83; David J. Helfand 鈥�72鈥檚 Universal Timekeepers; and Tales of New York, Paris and Las Vegas
小福利导航Magazine Accolades
鈥淎 Glorious Woman,鈥� an article written by Amherst magazine senior editor Katharine Whittemore, won a 2023 gold award in the profile writing category from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Amherst magazine won a 2021 CASE silver award for best general interest magazine, and Amherst magazine contributing writer Naomi Shulman鈥檚 article 鈥淗is Biggest Fear Is We鈥檒l Go Back to Normal鈥� won a 2021 CASE silver award in the profile writing category.
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