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
City Beloved
Humayun Ahmed's Tomader Ei Nagar-e projects Dhaka--our beloved city!--with all her beauties, flaws, eccentricities, and mysteries
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Literature and the City
Urban spaces have deeply contradictory existences in our imagination. We love cities and the goodies they offer; we also hate them
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Two Idiots in Dhaka
That building over there—that is the High Court!
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Dhaka Landing
Dhaka was still slumbering. The sun was yet to come up, and the silence spread over the pitched road was yet to be swallowed by the
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
From Dhaka and Dirty Dialectics:
But, Dhaka, I hear your sepoy in the attic say, as he fashions his life after the size and shape of a solitude more tenacious than my
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Tears of Unmet Love
Once upon a decade, a lost soul had fallen in love with the flaws of another one. He saw beauty in the eccentricity of her grey skin,
28 July 2017, 18:26 PM
Beyond the Shadows of Life
She kept on walking.
28 July 2017, 18:23 PM
Coleridge: Stories of Betrayal, Pain and Misunderstanding
Sometime in 1797 something magical happened in English literature. Two poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge by
28 July 2017, 18:18 PM
Sense of Poetic Essence
The sublime use of language can be best met in poetry which holds an intrinsic kinship with aesthetics. Poets play with words
28 July 2017, 18:17 PM
21st Century High Politics in the Indo-Pacific and the Bay of Bengal
A post-cold war international economic and political order is still unfolding and has been witnessing concerted attempts by traditional
28 July 2017, 18:06 PM
The Lights of Love
The universe has a way of tossing us into the winds of time
28 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Jane Austen's words, in numbers
Jane Austen is seeing something of a revival, if that can be said of an eternally popular writer, this year.
27 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Becoming a Janeite
I cannot exactly pinpoint the first time I read Austen. Back in high school? Or in one of my earlier semester breaks as an undergrad?
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Romancing a Royal Favour: The Dedication Page of Emma
Of the six novels written by Jane Austen, Emma is the only one to include a dedication page. It reads, "To His Royal Highness, The
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Austenland Revisited
I advance towards the bookshelf, a pleasurable hum of anticipation running through me – today is that most rare of opportunities: an
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Quotes on Austen
You could not shock her more than she shocks me,
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A Dream within a Dream
Imagine a world where you are the creator and the decider. And where you are the king in a kingdom of critters. It's a dream land, of
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Doves and Dogs of War
Wars, great and small, have been a part of recorded human history. Given the varied elements that go toward the making of
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A walk in the wake of destruction
In all likelihood these [the rings] are fragments of a former moon that was too close to the planet and was destroyed by its [Saturn's] tidal effect...
20 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Benimadhob
Benimadhob!My darling Benimadhob!
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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