LOVIA GYARKYE

I am a critic at The Hollywood Reporter. Previously, I was an editor at The New York Times Magazine Labs and before that a researcher at The New York Times Book Review. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Dissent, Aperture and The Nation. I won a LA Press Club Award in 2023 for my essay on Jerrod Carmichael’s HBO special Rothaniel and I teach in the arts and culture program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

You can follow me on twitter or write to me at gyarkye [at] gmail [dot] com.

Three Debut Features Give Depth and Dimension to Black Mothers, The Hollywood Reporter

The Octavia Butler Novel for Our Times, The Atlantic

Permission to Imagine, Dissent

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Mesmeric Alternate Universes, T Magazine

Picture Books: Imagine the Library of Your Dreams. Find It In the Palm of Your Hand, SSENSE

Senga Nengudi: An Artist’s Continuing Exploration of the Human Form, T Magazine

The Stranger, Bookforum

What Was Saved: Sarah Broom’s New Orleans Saga, The Nation

The Audacity of Jokes, The Point Magazine