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
MADE IN AMERICA!
Though times have changed, in the several visits I made to the US over the last twenty years, one headache has remained constant –
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Portraits of Bengali Life in a Bygone Era
Light, heavy, or both? History offers the reader a choice among all three, or a combination of them.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Still Young at Heart and Eloquent
At 80, which he reached on May 19, Hasnat Abdul Hye can look back, and certainly feel a sense of pride, accomplishment, and joy for a productive life, where he has not only been a leading bureaucrat of the country, but also a prolific author of distinction.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Karagarer Rojnamcha: A Jail Diary with a Difference
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's entire life bears testimony to his lasting love and passion for Bangladesh and Bengalis.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Portrait of the poet as young woman
Her hair
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Aphorisms of Humayun Azad
Mohammad Shafiqul Islam's book of translation, Aphorisms of Humayun Azad appears to be almost as pithy and barbed as the famous
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Their Lives Written with Blood
Published as early as 1978, Rizia Rahman's Rokter Okshor is an acclaimed fictionalization of prostitution in post-Liberation War
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Nineteen Thirty-Four
A motorcar
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Islam in Performance: Contemporary Plays from South Asia
As its title suggests, this is a collection of plays from South Asia which deal with the social and political performance of Islam in the
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Religion, Diaspora and the Politics of a Homing Desire
Let me dedicate my inaugural musing in this page to the writers of the Bangladeshi diaspora spread all over the world; after all, I
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Is Feminism a Sell-out? Andi Zeisler's In-depth Analysis of Modern Day Feminism
Last women's day, I saw many statuses on my news feed preaching many different things.
10 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Tagore’s memories with Nagor
From 1891-1901 Tagore was continuously in Bengal. He used to come in Naogaon’s Patisar to observe the estate’s condition till 1937. His grandfather Prince Dwarkanath Tagore bought this estate in 1830. Actually to look after that estate Tagore came to Patisar in 1891.
8 May 2017, 06:26 AM
Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum
This remarkable book records a unique feat. In sequenced essays, its many contributors led by their mastermind...
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Rabindranath and the Question of Nationalism
To read Rabindranath Tagore's lectures on Nationalism delivered in 1916 in Japan and in America is to feel that he positively detested it.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Visva-Bharati: A Civil Public Space for All Ages
All of us are products of our times – but while most of us are carried on time's shoulders only a few are able to carry time on theirs.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
My Tent of Hymns
Our house rules required us siblings to sit before our father every morning for a session on the literary classics.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Living and dying by the code
“How many governments have fallen,” the prince had gone on, “And how many kingdoms have been swept from the face of the earth, and Orosh is still standing.”
4 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Our Lifeline
Professor Anwarul Karim, a noted educationist and researcher, is best known to the people within and outside the country as a very
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Weaved through history
Publisher: Picador Publications
Date of Publication: July 2016. Price: 6.99 GBP
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM
The Power of Humour
Fun, pun, humor and satire are what characterize most of Syed Manzoorul Islam's works and his newly published Bichitra Swader Galpa(2017)ceases to be an exception.
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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