2024: Spring
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Senior Editor
Katharine Whittemore
Alumni Editor
Betsy Cannon Smith ’84
Print Design Director
Ronn Campisi
Assistant Editor
Katherine Duke ’05
Communications Coordinator
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 Amherst community has generated a veritable steppe’s worth of “Stanecdotes” about his classroom charisma, blunt charm, sustained kindness and support—plus his photographic memory. We’ve dedicated our Voices section to these recollections of Professor Rabinowitz’s 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 ’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 ’05E is no impostor. Find out how she forged—but did not fake—her 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
Amherst Creates
Collected criticism by Professor William H. Pritchard ’53; a love story from Victor Levin ’83; David J. Helfand ’72’s Universal Timekeepers; and Tales of New York, Paris and Las Vegas
Amherst Magazine Accolades
“A Glorious Woman,” 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’s article “His Biggest Fear Is We’ll Go Back to Normal” won a 2021 CASE silver award in the profile writing category.
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