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Illustration of cover of Vanity Fair magazine, tv and videos in the background

The Real National Pastime

by Rand Richards Cooper ’80

In the 1990s, did a preoccupation with sex lay the 
groundwork for today?


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Illustration of Gorbachev by Rebecca Clarke

Ideals Man

by Paul Statt ’78

Gorbachev boldly made his own history, but certainly not just as he pleased.


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The Scarlet Professor rehearsal. Photo by Skylhur Tranquille ’18

An Old Crime, a New Opera

by Rachel Rogol

Two Amherst professors teamed up with students and professional actors to dramatize the true, local story of a Smith faculty member’s arrest.


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Screenshot from Comrade Detective

Authentically Fake

by Josh Bell ’02

What if Sylvester Stallone were a proud Romanian communist? The result would be something like this buddy-cop parody.


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Illustration by John S. Dykes

Short Takes

by Katherine Duke ’05

SIT! STAY! And dog-ear these pages from Amherst alumni.


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Poet Richard Wilbur in his home study

Becoming the Grand Old Man

by Tess Taylor ’00

What made Richard Wilbur ’42 the 
poet he was?