Literary Hub
Craft and Criticism
Literary Criticism
Craft and Advice
In Conversation
On Translation
Fiction and Poetry
Short Story
From the Novel
Poem
News and Culture
History
Science
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Food
Technology
Bookstores and Libraries
Film and TV
Travel
Music
Art and Photography
The Hub
Style
Design
Sports
Become A Member
Lit Hub Radio
The Lit Hub Podcast
Awakeners
Fiction/Non/Fiction
The Critic and Her Publics
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
Memoir Nation
Beyond the Page
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Thresholds
The Cosmic Library
Culture Schlock
Reading Lists
Reading Challenge
Book Marks
Best Reviewed Books
CrimeReads
True Crime
The Daily Thrill
Log In
Craft and Criticism
Fiction and Poetry
News and Culture
Lit Hub Radio
Reading Lists
Reading Challenge
Book Marks
CrimeReads
Log In
Gunnhild Øyehaug
Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s
Minor Detail
“The book had overwhelmed me, among other things, because of this: shame at how little I actually knew.”
By
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
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Cozy, with a Side of Carnal: Birdie Horne on Writing Spicy, Open-door Sex Scenes
August 11, 2026
by
Birdie Horne
One Trucker's Quest to Capture the Everyday Heroes of an Oft-Forgotten Industry
August 11, 2026
by
Ryan Lowell
6 Great Mysteries Set in the Publishing Industry
August 11, 2026
by
E.C. Nevin
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Confident and unsettling I m forced to be coy because there s a mystery at…"