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Gunnhild Øyehaug
Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s
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“The book had overwhelmed me, among other things, because of this: shame at how little I actually knew.”
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Gunnhild Øyehaug
| February 12, 2024
A Bizarre Pattern of Bridges: How—and Why—Baudelaire Showed Up Throughout My Fiction
Gunnhild Øyehaug on Paying Homage to Literary Legends
By
Gunnhild Øyehaug
| February 15, 2023
Finding Humanity and Humility in Alberto Giacometti
Gunnhild Øyehaug on One of the 20th Century's Great Sculptors
By
Gunnhild Øyehaug
| February 21, 2020
One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle
Gunnhild Øyehaug: "That year of reading was a year of transformation."
By
Gunnhild Øyehaug
| August 6, 2019
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