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Emily Gold Boutilier
Alumni Editor
Betsy Cannon Smith ’84
Print Design Director
Ronn Campisi
Assistant Editor
Katherine Duke ’05
Senior Writer
Katharine Whittemore
Email us at: magazine@amherst.edu
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Professor Ilan Stavans reflects on the onscreen lives of himself and his students teaching during the year of COVID-19.
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Thomas Mitchell ’87 closed a loophole in real estate law that’s cheated the Black community from Reconstruction to today.
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For a decade, Stephen Hoge ’98’s company had pioneered the messenger RNA approach, but until now, few had noticed or cared.
One new (used) tractor, two Watson Fellowship winners, an ’06 state senator for the 7th District of Illinois, 10 innings of history and more.
Nonfiction, comics and memoir highlight this issue's alumni creations, plus three new books of poetry in our Short Takes section.