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
Grief Tourist
Stepping into unknown spaces,
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Bewitching Heidelberg
Much like the famous German song “Ichhabmein Herz in Heidelberg verloren” by Fred Raymond, which later became the theme song of
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Music, the Goddess of Passion
I confess: music for me is intimate. I don't know about genres and canons. Nor do I know the reasons that compel a composer to
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Artemis - A porter's guide to the moon city
I haven't read “The Martian” yet, but the reviews steaming with overwhelming appreciation definitely had me hyped for the author's latest title, Artemis. Did I enjoy my first Andy Weir book? Keep reading.
10 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Inspirational, Imaginative, Unconventional-Razia Khan Amin
There is hardly anything anywhere in the net to indicate how good Razia Khan Amin (1936-2011) (aka Razia Khan, or Mrs. Amin to us
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Imagination's winter
When snow falls, people at a distance
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Rediscovering Origin
These two questions happen to be at the heart of human knowledge and rationality, and the focal point of Dan Brown's ground-
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
SKETCHES ON A WIDE CAMPUS
This book's subtitle, Sketches from my Life gestures helpfully at the book's content for it is about the full and colorful life lived by its
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Specks of Dreams and Polarized Dusts
I fell asleep within my sleep and woke up to find myself in your dream, which is also mine.
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
From Enchanted Delta
Nadeem longed to join the crowds in the streets. When no one was around, he watched his own face in the mirror as he improvised a
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Stairway to Wonderland
Past giant mountains, which collide with the blue linings of the abyss,
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Reincarnation
We were in Cambridge, Massachusetts, waiting for a table at a popular restaurant. There were only two benches and a chair arranged
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Reminiscing Comilla
This evening, it's my nose or maybe I've been getting intimations of the sweet odor of burning incense!
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Church Bells and Darjeeling Tea
The title of the book entices the reader. We all love Darjeeling tea, but why 'Church bells?' Zeena Chowdhury's experience of
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Efflorescence of South Asian Sci Fi?
I have long been a reader of science fiction. Not just for entertainment, but also for insights useful for my research and teaching.
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
A Game of Light and Darkness
Charulata Akhter was an ordinary, braided, floral salwar kameez-wearing nineteen-year-old from the Shundarganj village of Rangpur.
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
EXQUISITE GASTRONOMY
After a long field trip, hunger gripped the mission members who could barely wait to eat, yearning for whatever they could find. The
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Is It Truth or Dare?
Those familiar with Nadia Kabir Barb's column Straight Talk in The Daily Star will be pleased with her short fiction debut Truth or Dare.
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Full Circle
How innocently I met Islam! It was through a humble kind of “How do you do?” proffered to a handful of Rajasthan mosques; among
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry
O Mayor! My Mayor!
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
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