Books & Literature

Shilpakala hosts evening of poetry and theatre

7 June 2026, 11:26 AM Entertainment

The evening opened with ensemble recitations of “Charyapada” and “Banglar Mukh”, creating a bridge between the earliest known examples of Bengali literary expression and contemporary poetic voices. Through carefully choreographed vocal performances, the productions highlighted the evolution of Bengali language and literature across centuries.

Poetry / A woman-shaped exhaustion

6 June 2026, 00:00 AM ⁠⁠Poetry

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

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 / Stories from under the waves

Atiya Rumni Mahmood

⁠⁠Features

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

EDITORIAL / Why read?

Nazia Manzoor

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

The museum of found memories

As her whole universe

19 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Wavell and the Dying Days of the Raj

A critical and historical understanding of Lord Archibald Wavell's viceroyalty is important for understanding the rational dynamics amongst the three leading political actors of that time, the British, the Hindus, and the Muslims.

14 June 2015, 18:00 PM

The Children Act By Ian McEwan

This week, and the following, we will feature the work of two Booker Prize winning novelists, Ian McEwan and Richard Flanagan.

14 June 2015, 18:00 PM

The Goa Connection By Bappaditya Chakravarty

Throw into a pot cooking up fiction a dash of intrigue, a pinch of cloak-and-dagger and gore, a soupcon of sleight-of-hand connection of the dots, a hint of James Bond-like characters and not-so-femme fatales, and a potpourri of villains, and you end up with a…thriller!

14 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India By Eugenia W. Herbert

In this deeply researched yet wonderfully readable history of Britain's 'garden imperialism' in India, Eugenia W. Herbert draws on a wealth of personal accounts and period illustrations, many of them little known, to track the evolution of imperial ideas of governance through colonial gardens.

14 June 2015, 18:00 PM

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