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Lovia Gyarkye
@simplylovia
Lovia Gyarkye is on the editorial staff at
The New York Times Book Review.
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May 20, 2021
Magazine
Lovia Gyarkye
The Other Black Girl
Reinvents the Office Novel
Zakiya Dalila Harris’s psychological thriller grapples with ambition and inequality in the workplace.
August 17, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
What Ferguson Means Now
A new documentary, "Whose Streets?," shows how protest centered the movement against police brutality.
July 19, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
The Importance of Being Ordinary
Gwendolyn Brooks’s life and work asserted the humanity of black people in America.
May 31, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
The Women Who Wanted A Revolution
A new Brooklyn Museum exhibition about black female artists offers a blueprint for the future of feminism.
May 12, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
Have the Rich Become “Super Citizens”?
David Callahan's new book "The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age" looks at wealth, charity, and how the superrich shape public policy to their own ends.
April 20, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
A Poet’s History of Chicago
Kevin Coval's new collection creates community through history.
April 11, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
The Comedic Genius of Netflix’s
Chewing Gum
The second season of this brilliant British comedy presents a refreshing interrogation of normality.
March 27, 2017
Jo Livingstone
,
Lovia Gyarkye
Death to the Flâneur
This mythic figure is having a moment. But to adopt his point of view is to look for meaning around all the wrong corners.
March 22, 2017
Jo Livingstone
,
Lovia Gyarkye
The Case Against Dana Schutz
Why her painting of Emmett Till at the Whitney Biennial insults his memory.
March 2, 2017
Jo Livingstone
,
Lovia Gyarkye
Uptown Girl / Uptown Boy
How a new exhibition of Alice Neel's paintings, curated by Hilton Als, reflexively explores relationships and identity.
February 3, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
James Baldwin and the Struggle to Bear Witness
A new film, "I Am Not Your Negro," tracks the late writer’s attempt to document the martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement.
December 20, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
The Words That Defined 2016
The language we used was a reflection of our dark, disturbing year.
November 22, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
The Enduring Importance of Identity Liberalism
Mark Lilla argues that the Democratic Party needs to move beyond identity politics. But that's precisely where the country's salvation lies.
October 25, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
The Authentic Black Female Friendship of
Insecure
On Issa Rae’s new show, black women are bonded, not divided, by their insecurities.
October 10, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
Donald Trump Is Right: Famous Men
Can
Do Anything
Just ask Roman Polanski or Bill Cosby.
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