Amherst College

By Rand Richards Cooper ’80

The number kept changing. Was it 374 years, as President Biddy Martin stated in her congratulatory remarks? Or 421 years, as listed on the invitation? Or some other figure?

By Rand Richards Cooper ’80

No single view of the new science center will disclose its whole shape.

Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power, by Andrew Nagorski ’69 (Simon & Schuster)

Reviewed by Rand Richards Cooper ’80

By Rand Richards Cooper ’80

Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age, by Blair Kamin ’79, P’15 (University of Chicago Press)

Reviewed by Rand Richards Cooper ’80

By Rand Richards Cooper ’80

The sequel to the book that jumpstarted the legal-thriller genre. Innocent, by Scott Turow ’70 (Grand Central Publishing)

Reviewed by Rand Richards Cooper ’80

And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture, by Bill Wasik ’96 (Viking)

Review by Rand Richards Cooper ’80

The Lost Symbol is published by Doubleday

Reviewed by Rand Richards Cooper ’80