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
Poetry
Poetry springs from childhood memories. It's mother's pale face
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Writing April
We knew each other only through our articles. I liked Tulip Chowdhury's dreamy, messy, stream of consciousness essays. She didn't
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Between the Covers of Books
“I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A Liberation War Novel for Our Time
The title of Habib's work is suggest why did our valiant freedom fighters liberate this country? Why did the martyrs go through hell for
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Men, Memories and Missing Pieces
Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami, ISBN 9780451494, Bond Street Books, 2017
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Diversities in Diasporas
Keeping in view the dichotomy of diversity within unity and unity within diversity, the Department of English, Independent University
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
From Niketan to Mohakhali: A Rickshaw Odyssey
For the three years that I lived in Niketan, Gulshan, I commuted to my workplace in Mohakhali by rickshaw. Each day was an adventure then
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Adventure, Nostalgia and Puran Dhaka
Shahriar Kabir, one of the first and finest children's and "Young Adult" authors of Bangladesh, hails from Old Dhaka. Most fictional works
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Excerpts from The Book of Dhaka
“There is no sound inside the bus now. The thumping in the passengers' chests gets louder in the quiet and the sound throbs inside
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Writing Dhaka
You can judge a book by its cover, banal stereotypes notwithstanding. The red lines on the slightly green graph paper, featuring on
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
You Said
Notun Bazar was burning, burning!
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Paradise Lost-Dhaka in the 1950s and 60s
Memory always plays tricks on us in old age and nostalgia makes the past appear perennially serene then.
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A Linguistic Examination of Twelve Stories
As part of the Library of Bangladesh series, Dhaka Translation Center (DTC) has published a translation of twelve stories written by Hasan Azizul Haq, one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Bengali literature.
29 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Like Dark Clouds are Adorned
The rainy season is here. At this time, the river next to our home is filled to the brim.
29 June 2017, 18:00 PM
THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2017 TO ANNOUNCE ITS WINNER AT THE DHAKA LITERARY FESTIVAL
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature has announced that it would be awarding its next winner at the Dhaka Literary Festival (DLF)
29 June 2017, 18:00 PM
JIMMY, THE DOG
I want to write a poem about a dog
though I've already written some poems
that feature dogs. Sometimes I want
29 June 2017, 18:00 PM
The Acting Bug and the Curious Adventure of a Long-haired Dude
I guess I was bitten by the acting bug in my mother's womb. Otherwise, how does one explain my fascination for the theater, theatrics,
29 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Places
The intimate impersonality of my hotel room
23 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Thinking Beyond Boundaries: An Interview with Susie Tharu
Susie Tharu and K. Lalita are well-known in India and beyond for their path breaking publication Women Writing in
23 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Redrawing Gender Boundaries in Literary Terrains 18th and 19th May 2017.
The connections between gender and literature have a long history. Looking only at English literature, we can trace
23 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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