I Do Not Know Lucy Ives

Sam Bodrojan is a cultural critic and writer. Her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, MUBI Notebook, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Chicago, and her work can be found at sambodrojan.com.

Lucy Ives is the author of Life Is Everywhere: A Novel (2022) and An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays (2024), both published by Graywolf Press. Her writing has appeared in Aperture, Artforum, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, and Vogue. She teaches at Brown University.