Poetry / A woman-shaped exhaustion
6 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
By twenty-four I could make my voice sound sunlight-warm over the phone.
No trembling.
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
News
Book Review: Fiction / ‘Chaashabhushar Sontan’: A quest for many questions and answers
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction review
Book Review: Nonfiction / The story of Bangladesh’s books
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Creative non-fiction
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
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
Social “Cannibalism” and the Edible Women
The Edible Woman (1969) is the Canadian author Margaret Atwood's debut novel. It follows the story of Marian MacAlpin, a young
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
ECLECTIC ESSAYS
Muhammad Zamir is a prolific writer, notably for the national newspapers of Bangladesh, and writes proficiently in both Bengali and
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Dressed Like a Daydream
The pool was midnight blue, adorned by the reflection of thousands of stars. It blended perfectly well with my deepest, nearly-pitch-
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Ghalib Ki Dilli (Part II)
Some years back, I had read of the restoration of the Ghalib haveli. The premises in 1995 had served as a heater workshop. It opened
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
You, who are
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
The Endless I
Within the givens of life
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
OF WEDDING GIFTS
After a month's respite, with the inauspicious Pous being over, the Bengali wedding season has come back with a big vengeance, so to
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Crescent: A Review
Diana Abu-Jaber, a Jordanian-American writer based in U.S., attracted an international readership when her debut novel Arabian Jazz
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
My Life with Shakespeare
When you are asked to write a memoir or something about Shakespeare, you should know that you have reached your expiration date.
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Ghalib ki Dilli (Part I)
I should have been listening to one of the scores of imaginative events on the poetry, life and times of the pre-eminent poet of the
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Tagore Songs
With him, “no” will never do.
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Prodigy
The smell of spicy food was making Sam hungry. After a long wait at the restaurant, the waiter came with the food. He had a mask
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
BIDDING ADIEU TO RADA
The terrible realization was setting in almost all, if not all of us. The dream days of fun and work in equal measure at RADA were
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Jibanananda Das: Baitarani
I'm not sure when I rose from the grave of death—
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Anne -The Hopeless Dreamer
If you are a fan of Little Women or What Katy Did series, Anne of Green Gables and its sequels are just the thing you have been looking
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Where Reality Meets Fiction
“All our lives, we are never in a single moment at any time”- said Arundhati Roy in her interview with Patrick Carey for Books and Arts.
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Fundamentalism in Bangladesh: A Review
Prof. Abul Barkat, who is known as “people's economist,” has published a book on fundamentalism in Bangladesh from Muktobuddhi
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
A Different Kind of Cookbook
Occasionally, a cookbook comes along that lures you into hours of reading. The recently published Recipes from Bangladesh by Fawzia Mowla (fondly known as “Lisa”) is one such book.
16 April 2018, 18:00 PM
A Brief History of Pahela Baishakh
Most of us know that the celebrations of Pahela Baishakh began in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. However, we have mostly
13 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Alpanas: “Dreams under your feet”
If you ask me, it is not unlikely that alpana and kalpana should sound almost similar, since without kalpana, or creative ingenuity, it is
13 April 2018, 18:00 PM
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