CREATIVE NONFICTION / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
In 1970s Azimpur, the two Eids and Durga Puja were the punctuation marks of our year—days when stairwells, verandas, and a single playground turned many flats into one home.
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The flavours of Eid and the memory of home
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
The Shelf / Chand raat in Dhaka through the eyes of literary characters
27 May 2026, 23:33 PM
The Shelf
THE SHELF / The knife is always ready 5 books for the season of sacrifice
27 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / Pias Majid: The poet of the moonlight conference
27 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Nazrul cannot be contained within a singular frame
25 May 2026, 09:00 AM
Culture
Essay / Anti-colonial resistance in Kazi Nazrul Islam’s essays
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
Essay / Raja Rammohun Roy: An architect of Asian cosmopolitan modernity
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
21 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Features
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
Thorns in My Quilt (Rupa Publications India, 2024) unfolds through address rather than disclosure. Written as a series of letters to her father, Mohua Chinappa’s memoir traces memory not as a sequence of events, but as an emotional inheritance shaped by silence, expectation, and the subtle negotiations that govern family life.
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues
22 April 2026, 18:41 PM
News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
Two Palestinian writers, Omar Hamad and Ibrahim Massri, have been working since late 2025 to build a library in Gaza during the ongoing genocide. The Phoenix Library is located in the heart of Gaza City and, per a post from the library’s Twitter/X account, is fast approaching its official opening date despite the Gaza Strip and all of occupied Palestine still being subject to Israeli apartheid violence.
NEWS REPORT / Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me secures 2026 NBCC Award, continues global recognition
28 March 2026, 17:07 PM
Celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy’s 2025 memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me (Penguin, 2025) continues to solidify its place in the zeitgeist and its cultural impact well into 2026, with its recent win at this year’s US National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in the Autobiography category.
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
Creative non-fiction
Children of 1972–73 came of age alongside Bangladesh itself. In Azimpur’s close‑knit colony, a telephone became a neighbourhood lifeline, television was a shared ritual, and the Buriganga was our afternoon escape.
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Essay / The Cosmere is getting adapted: Here is where to start reading
14 March 2026, 21:02 PM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
Essay / A meaningless world: Sartre, Camus, Waliullah, and Badal Sircar
14 March 2026, 01:48 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
The shelf / 6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf
1 March 2026, 21:07 PM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
Reflections
Far away from the crowd,
far from the glaring chaos;
out of the blaring car horns,
out of the shrieks of loneliness,
out of all the madness that surrounds;
Out of the city, out of the cacophony
I chose to go and find solace.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Poetry by Manu Dash
You thought Time
would play thumri
while in the outskirts of desire
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Mojaffor Hossain’s All the Sadeqs are getting killed
The most naïve boy of Dhabaldhola village had been murdered. The decapitated body lay on the demarcation line between the Bangari field and the Taro crop-field.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM
“When I started reading, I had no idea what to expect.”
A brilliant conversation about literature, characters, and The Book Thief
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Why you should give your books a break
A week or two ago, I came across an article by Hassan Munhamanna on Daily Star Books in which he talked about his struggles with reading books in their entirety.
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM
UPL launches Samuel Jaffe’s book on US grassroots activism in Bangladesh Liberation War
In a live YouTube broadcast, The University Press Limited (UPL) launched their book, An Internal Matter: The U.S., Grassroots Activism and the Creation of Bangladesh, written by Samuel Jaffe, at 7 PM on Saturday, January 15, 2022.
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Linda Rui Feng’s ‘Swimming Back to Trout River’: Of music, migration, Mao Zedong’s China, and more
Spanning nearly three decades and moving back and forth between Communist China and the United States, Linda Rui Feng’s debut novel, Swimming Back to Trout River (Simon & Schuster, 2021), follows a family fractured by physical and emotional distance.
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Qazi Anwar Husain, writer and founder of Sheba Prokashoni, no more
Renowned writer Kazi Anwar Hossain has passed away. He breathed his last at 4:40 pm today.
19 January 2022, 11:45 AM
UPL launches Samuel Jaffe’s book on grassroots activism in the Liberation War
In a live YouTube broadcast, University Press Limited (UPL) launched their book, An Internal Matter: The U.S., Grassroots Activism and the Creation of Bangladesh, written by Samuel Jaffe, at 7 PM on Saturday, January 15, 2022.
16 January 2022, 11:22 AM
From One Minute Past Midnight
I’m feeling a certain disenchantment.
14 January 2022, 18:00 PM
My Childhood World
The best part of my childhood was during the late fifties, attending Dacca Cantonment Primary School at Ayub Line.
14 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Why Haruki Murakami resonates with young readers
Haruki Murakami is perhaps one of the most celebrated and well known writers of not only Japan but all of contemporary literature. His writing is humorous, hypnotic,
12 January 2022, 18:00 PM
New books by favourite authors in the first quarter of 2022
Read an extended version of this list on The Daily Star website and on Daily Star Books’ Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
12 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Paulo Coelho, where are you?
I love it when Paulo Coelho’s books start with a challenge or a quest, and The Archer (Penguin Random House, 2020), accordingly, does not fail to open with an intriguing pursuit. Upon reading the prologue, I thought I was in for a good read; it was rich and humorous, and in line with the writer’s usual mystical tone.
12 January 2022, 18:00 PM
For the Love of Tea
My baby boy snatches my empty tea mug from me and starts licking it. He was given the last few drops of tea from the mug and now he wants more. He puts his hand inside the mug, gets the boiled tea dust into his fist, inserts them in his mouth and starts chewing furiously.
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Facts, Fabulism, and Fantasy: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte
Few authors would attempt a task as daunting as borrowing a seventeenth-century masterpiece Don Quixote from Spanish to English and setting it up on twenty-first-century United States. Given his dexterity with fabulism and experimental fiction, Salman Rushdie accepts the task with aplomb.
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
From the minarets, all their dark secrets revealed
Certain identities can strip people of their right to identify as humans. These people find their existence undesired, their rights, freedom, choices unguarded.
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM
I can’t finish reading books. Should I stop trying?
I struggle to finish books. Well, one can even say I struggle to read, if you think a good reader is someone who finishes the books they pick up.
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Of noodles and nostalgia
“Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart”, reads the stark opening line in Michelle Zauner’s 2021 memoir, Crying in H Mart (Knopf), starting the
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM
An easy guide to maintaining an aesthetic bookstagram feed
From finding the right props to setting up a shoot, the many ways of curating an interesting Instagram profile can be easier than it appears to be.
3 January 2022, 09:28 AM
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