Lovia Gyarkye
Lovia Gyarkye is an editor at Hammer & Hope magazine and a culture critic based in New York.
By Lovia Gyarkye
| May 29, 2026
In 2001, the Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari set out to find a man he had known while imprisoned in the late 1980s, when he was only 17. With only his memories, Aljafari embarked on a road trip through Gaza with a guide named Hasan in search of his friend.
By Lovia Gyarkye
| January 14, 2026
Sound of Falling anchors the undulations of history in a physical structure, a home inhabited by generations of people. That allows Schilinski to enter the past through oblique, almost surreptitious, methods, which casts history as a moving amalgamation of life’s minor and mirroring moments instead of dramatic apexes.