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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.
July 19, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
The Importance of Being Ordinary
Gwendolyn Brooks’s life and work asserted the humanity of black people in America.
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.
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.
September 22, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
Charlotte police won’t release the video of Keith Lamont Scott’s killing—and they don’t have to.
September 8, 2016
Lovia Gyarkye
Will smaller profile pictures eliminate racism on Airbnb?
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