LOVIA GYARKYE

I’m an editor at Hammer & Hope, a magazine of Black politics and culture. Previously, I was a critic at The Hollywood Reporter and before that an editor at The New York Times Magazine Labs. My work has appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dissent and Aperture. In 2025, I was named a finalist for best film critic by the Los Angeles Press Club and in 2024, I won an ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30. I teach in the arts and culture program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and I’m a contributing editor at Africa Is a Country. I live in New York City.

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

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monuments to Workers, Hammer & Hope

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