Books & Literature

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

Reviews

Book Review: Nonfiction / The human texture of July

Adnan M. S. Fakir

Book Review: Nonfiction / A book on education, and a rare moment of hope

Shahedul Azam

Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters

Najmus Sakib

Book Review: Fiction / Agency, identity, and the rewriting of Medusa

Jonah Kent Richards

Book review: Fiction / Aruna Chakravarti’s ghosts don’t just scare, they remember

Mitali Chakravarty

BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / A wintry account of the human experience

Shounak Reza

Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga

Arwin Shams Siddiquee

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 / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance

Namrata

REFLECTIONS / The fading appeal of the Eid magazine

Iftehaz Yeasir Iftee

INTERVIEW / Reclaiming the unwritten: Kanika Gupta on colonialism, embodiment, and the art of remembering

Namrata

⁠⁠News

Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’

7 May 2026, 00:00 AM

News Report / Illuminating the past and the present: The 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners announced

5 May 2026, 21:50 PM

Event Report / Poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved launched at Bangla Academy

19 May 2026, 14:26 PM

Event Report / Two-day literary memorial and discussion event held at Bengal Shilpalay

Star Books Report

17 May 2026, 17:16 PM

Event Report / Secrets, silences, and storytelling: Inside the launch of Razia Sultana’s new anthology

Kazi Raidah Afia Nusaiba

14 May 2026, 00:00 AM

Event Report / DEML-NSU hosts closing ceremony for first cohort of its Creative Writing Certificate Course

27 April 2026, 22:43 PM

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

Star Books Report

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 / “Six books that reverberate with history, humanity, heartbreak, and hope”: 2026 International Booker Prize shortlist announced

Arwin Shams Siddiquee

2 April 2026, 17:32 PM

NEWS REPORT / Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me secures 2026 NBCC Award, continues global recognition

Star Books Report

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

Editor’s pick

Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew

Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman

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

Iftehaz Yeasir Iftee

20 March 2026, 20:20 PM

Essay / The Cosmere is getting adapted: Here is where to start reading

Sajal Hossain Dhaly

14 March 2026, 21:02 PM

CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness

Anindita Roy

14 March 2026, 01:59 AM

Essay / A meaningless world: Sartre, Camus, Waliullah, and Badal Sircar

Mostofa Sarwar

14 March 2026, 01:48 AM

CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B

Tashfia Ahmed

7 March 2026, 02:13 AM

The shelf / 6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf

Arwin Shams Siddiquee Mahmuda Emdad

1 March 2026, 21:07 PM

ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after

Shababa Iqbal

27 February 2026, 00:05 AM

Of Ball Gowns, Corsages, and Tuxes

In more ways than one, an anthology is like an assorted box of candies; you never know what's coming next; 21 Proms is no exception to

13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Political Economy of Unpeopling of Indigenous Peoples: the Case of Bangladesh

The word 'people' is a very common and widely used term but the prefix 'un' and the suffix 'ing' makes it perfect as the title of Political

13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Kazuo Ishiguro's Craft of Recreating Memory and Forgetfulness

That Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this year is significant for various reasons. The declaration of Bob

13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Enchanted

You remind me of the ocean,

13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Three Untitled Poems

slick-silvered fish

13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

An arson in utopia

“Most communities just happen; the best are planned” - is the motto of a perfectionist community, Shaker Heights.

11 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Capsule

Our conversations end mid-sentence.

6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Romancing the Senses-Hearing

Wikipedia lists the 5 senses thus: taste, sight, touch, smell and hearing, and they are all important, but it's sight that dominates the

6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

BATTLE OF THE SENSES?

Battle? What does it mean? One sense against another? No, it's an intellectual tamasha in which six professors of English Literature

6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

The Sixth Sense

1. Both Sigmund Freud and Jung studied the unconscious but did not strongly emphasize the 'Sixth Sense' or the Intuitive one,

6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

The Sense of Touch

It was a pair of forceps that brought me into the world. The metallic tongs pulled me out of my mother's womb. I don't remember the

6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

The Politics of a Violent Decolonization

Professor Serajul Islam Chowdhury's Jatiotabad, Samprodaikata O JonogonerMukti: 1905-47 or Nationalism, Communalism and

6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Who reads young adult books?

How the young adult genre evolved to gain universal readership

5 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize

British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" and whose emotional uprooting from his native Japan has left an indelible stamp on his work, wins the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize.

5 October 2017, 11:14 AM