BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The story of Bangladesh’s books
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Books & Literature
We have long heard stories about the late military ruler H M Ershad and his deep desire to be recognised as a poet.
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / ‘Chaashabhushar Sontan’: A quest for many questions and answers
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Books & Literature
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
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
Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
How do you contain something you can’t record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you’re at war?
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
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
Revisiting Hogwarts: Harry Potter's 20th Anniversary
The nearly two-hour-long special felt like being splashed in the face with a potion that induces nostalgia.
2 January 2022, 12:50 PM
A BalkanTale
I was then working as a military observer in Sarajevo, and visiting Zagreb for some official purpose. Jean Marc, one of my French colleagues
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Ah, storytelling!
Do the smooth muscles of narrative hold a deceptive appeal? Does the temporality of a story do more harm than good? One of the most intriguing stories in Aesop’s Fables, seems to think so – a fascinating story that is a good example of an anti-story!
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Andy Weir's latest in science fiction: Humanity’s hail mary to save itself
Earth is doomed. A mysterious microorganism called Astrophage is eating away the sun’s energy. If you are concerned about the planet
29 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Is economics passé? On Wahiduddin Mahmud’s new book, ‘Markets, Morals and Development’
As the world nears the second quarter of the 21st century, some of the nagging questions we still face in the world of socio-economic
29 December 2021, 18:00 PM
What The Daily Star read in 2021
As we near the year’s end, the Star Books Team asks the different sections of The Daily Star about the most interesting books that they would recommend to their readers this year.
29 December 2021, 18:00 PM
DS Books’ favourite reads of 2021
Sri Lankan author, Anuk Arudpragasam’s Booker-shortlisted second novel, travels through the haunted landscapes of Sri Lanka. The
29 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Anwara Syed Haq and Wasi Ahmed win the first Abu Rushd Literary Award
Anwara Syed Haq has won the award for her novel, Chokh, and Wasi Ahmed for his, titled, Borofkol.
28 December 2021, 08:57 AM
Gyankosh Prokashoni to publish book about the stock market
Gyankosh Prokashoni has announced the publication of a book on the stock market at the upcoming Amar Ekushey Boi Mela 2022.
25 December 2021, 06:34 AM
Romancing Wuthering Heights
In popular culture, if not in criticism, Wuthering Heights stands as the tale of love lost in betrayal and a grand reunion in the afterworld. The
24 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Rokeya Stands Tall
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s (1880-1932) ancestors came from Tabriz in Iran to settle down in this region. During her lifetime, Bangladesh as an independent country did not exist. We call her a Bangladeshi writer because she was born in Pairaband, Rangpur, in what is now Bangladesh. However, the site of her activism was Calcutta.
24 December 2021, 18:00 PM
How can we tackle climate change and food shortage in Asia?
Climate change and food security issues are multifaceted and transcend national boundaries.
22 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding": The uglier side of holiday parties
Two years ago, I read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Christmas Tree and the Wedding”(1848), and even though I don’t celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense,
22 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Diversity and nuance mark the Bangladeshi experience in Sohana Manzoor's 'Our Many Longings: Contemporary Short Fiction From Bangladesh'
So many words have been used to describe this nation in the last 50 years. Started from a bottomless basket, and along the way we’ve been called resilient, passionate, corrupt, greedy, full of warmth.
22 December 2021, 18:00 PM
CLOSER TO HOME: How the MCU Spider-Man embraced his comic book roots
The film is packed with so many easter eggs that one would need another entire article just to list them all and still miss a few.
21 December 2021, 14:00 PM
Untold stories of war heroines: Revisiting Rizia Rahman’s ‘Rokter Okshor’
Published as early as 1978, Rizia Rahman’s well-acclaimed book, Rokter Okshor, narrates the lives of the women who were forced (directly and indirectly) into prostitution in the post-Liberation War era of Bangladesh.
18 December 2021, 10:27 AM
Anwarul Amin’s memoir revisits the first Bangladeshi bank established abroad
In a discerning recollection of events, esteemed retired banker Anwarul Amin has released his memoir about opening the first branch of a Bangladeshi bank abroad.
18 December 2021, 09:06 AM
Kolimoddi Dafadaar
The banks along the river Shitalakshya flooded on a regular basis. During the rainy season, most villages around the area turned into islands.
17 December 2021, 18:00 PM
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