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The Student-Run Newspaper of Williams College Since 1887

The Williams Record

The Student-Run Newspaper of Williams College Since 1887

The Williams Record

The Student-Run Newspaper of Williams College Since 1887

The Williams Record

Ocean Vuong, a poet who teaches at UMass Amherst, sits for a portrait Nov. 14, 2017 in his Florence home.

Ocean Vuong delivers quiet charisma

Lily Goldberg November 14, 2018

“It’s strange getting used to your own voice,” Ocean Vuong mused, stepping onto the podium and bringing the microphone in closer to his melancholy smile. “You are born with it, after all.”...

"A Star is Born" explores camp aesthetics

“A Star is Born” explores camp aesthetics

Lily Goldberg October 31, 2018

If you had told me that Bradley Cooper, whose last major onscreen role was Iraq veteran Chris Kyle in Clint Eastwood’s aggressively patriotic biopic American Sniper, would direct film’s newest camp...

Conversation with Brad Wells, founder of Roomful of Teeth

Conversation with Brad Wells, founder of Roomful of Teeth

Lily Goldberg October 3, 2018

Roomful of Teeth, the contemporary vocal ensemble founded by lecturer in music Brad Wells, performed in Chapin Hall last Friday before an enraptured crowd. I got the chance to sit down with Wells and...

Overgrown oscillates between Sole's Catholic upbringing in Charlotte, N.C. and the grit of Philadelphia.

Philadelphia-based rapper Ivy Sole explores manifestations of love

Lily Goldberg September 26, 2018

I haven’t taken my headphones off in days. By some divine coincidence, two of my favorite female rappers released their sophomore albums within four days of each other; Chicago based rapper Noname’s...

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