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Editor 
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


Feature Articles

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Grammar School

Sometimes you need decades to realize you loved a class.

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Damage Control

Welcome to the weird world of environmental offsets.

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A Glorious Woman

The extraordinary, incomplete story of Tamara Johnson ’73.

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Community News

Censored books, a soccer star, Ukrainian-born artists, “Song of Myself” and more.

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Amherst Creates

Noor Qasim ’18 curates 125 years of The New York Times Book Review memoir; at the table with restaurant reviewer Alexander Lobrano ’77; and Dustin Thao ’18’s tale of teenage tragedy and grief.