# Lovia Gyarkye

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NYFF62 Festival Report, with Bilge Ebiri and Lovia Gyarkye

As the 62nd New York Film Festival drew to a close last weekend, it was once again time for Film Comment’s Festival Report, our annual live overview of the NYFF that was. This year, the end-of-fest ritual took place in collaboration with the New York Film Critics Circle, which will celebrate its 90…

Inheriting the Inescapable: Lovia Gyarkye on Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine

Jo discovers one of the most fascinating books of all time with Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus, while Charlotte issues her verdict on whether Lional Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin lives up to its good reputation. Beloved critic Lovia Gyarkye then joins to assess the complex, b…

New Year, New Releases, with Lovia Gyarkye and Michael Blair

Two enigmatic icons with enduring holds on the Western imagination are currently lighting up multiplex screens: fearsome Transylvanian vampire Dracula and Nobel Prize–winning American treasure Bob Dylan. Both released on Christmas Day, Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu and James Mangold’s A Complete Unknow…

Sundance 2025 #3, with Lovia Gyarkye, Alana Pockros, and Lisa Wong Macabasco

It’s late January, which means that the intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the snowy slopes of Park City, Utah, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of this year's Sundance Film Festival. For the next week, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the…

Permission to Imagine feat. Lovia Gyarkye

Funding for this project comes from Critical Minded, a grantmaking and learning initiative founded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Ford Foundation to support cultural critics of color in the United States. For full show notes and written annotations, subscribe to the companion newsletter. …

What do we need from the culture? Lovia Gyarkye on writing critically in an age of fascism

This week, we’re featuring an interview with the writer & culture critic Lovia Gyarkye, an editor at Hammer & Hope, a magazine of Black politics and culture. Lovia discusses her approach to cultural critique, looks back at a 2017 piece she wrote about Trevor Noah, makes a case for why everyone shou…

Is It A Crime? with Lovia Gyarkye

We regaled Lovia Gyarkye with a story about an eldest daughter introducing her boyfriend to her immigrant mother. (Plus just a hint of acappella!) Subscribe and learn more about Hammer & Hope here. Subscribe to our newsletter for writing from Rachelle, Se'era, Jae, Alex, and Kelsey, plus blog rec…

“The Banality of Empathy“ by Namwali Serpell

In March 2019 Namwali Serpell wrote for the NYR Online about a choose-your-own-adventure-style episode of the television show Black Mirror, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hannah Arendt, and Violet Allen’s story “The Venus Effect,” among other subjects, in an expansive essay on about narrative empathy. In thi…

So you wanna be a critic...

Social media has made it easy for everyone to give their opinion...so why do people hate critics?To answer that question Brittany is joined by Lovia Gyarkye, culture editor at Hammer and Hope, a magazine dedicated to Black culture and politics. Lovia’s spent the bulk of her career researching, refl…