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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

Lily Goldberg, Senior Writer

Lily Goldberg ’22 is a comparative literature major from New York, N.Y. She is a senior writer for the arts section, and previously served as an arts section editor.

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(Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.)

Box Office Hours: ‘The World to Come’ with Jim Shepard

Lily Goldberg March 3, 2021
I did not intend on seeing what I presumed to be the latest iteration of the “white lesbian period piece,” a romantic drama called The World to Come about two neighbors who fall for one another in 1800s upstate New York. But while sleepily skimming a review of the film on an online arts blog, a line caught my eye: Professor of English Jim Shepard, who had taught a couple of my friends over the years at the College, had written the film’s screenplay.

A Thousand Ways: A Review of a Theater Piece during a Pandemic

Lily Goldberg October 7, 2020
A Thousand Ways, the new COVID-era performance piece by theatre duo 600 Highwaymen presented virtually this weekend by the ’62 Center, is composed entirely of similarly pointed questions (I think one or two of them even overlapped with the ones J and I had asked each other). In A Thousand Ways, two strangers — participants who reserve tickets for the same time slot — dial into a personalized conference call. There, a pre-recorded voice greets the two strangers and guides both participants through a set of questions (“Who is someone you idolized?”), visualizations (“Picture yourself in a blue car on a dusty highway. Say ‘I’m there’ when you feel it) and partner exercises (“Person A, count down from 5 as Person B traces their forearm from elbow to wrist”). Over the course of the hour, the idea goes, the stranger sharing anecdotes on the other end of the line might become less of a stranger, might “come into focus.” I understood this because at the end of the piece, the pre-recorded voice requested I repeat to my partner, “Am I coming into focus?”
Connors Brothers Moving: The Story Behind the Storage

Connors Brothers Moving: The Story Behind the Storage

Lily Goldberg April 1, 2020
With student departures from campus coming far earlier than expected this year, Williams students rushed to move their belongings into storage until the fall. Many used the ubiquitous purple pods marked “Connors Brothers Moving and Storage” that crop up on campus during move-in and move-out.
eva henderson ’19, whose hand tattoo art is shown above, works in a variety of art mediums at the College. Photo courtesy of eva henderson.

eva henderson talks tattoo art

Lily Goldberg May 1, 2019

eva henderson ’19, whose hand tattoo art is shown above, works in a variety of art mediums at the College. Photo courtesy of eva henderson. Even if you’ve never spoken to eva henderson ’19,...

Step: a rhythmic history

Step: a rhythmic history

Lily Goldberg March 13, 2019

A rhythm swells in the ‘62 Center. Stomp. Clap. Tap. The rhythm spreads from one body to the next, a contagion that built until it exploded into synchronicity. This is the art of Sankofa, the College’s...

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.”...

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