Song of the Sky: Nonfiction inspired by Joyce

The dance of the tongue is just as beautiful as the word itself. Effulgent wind, effulgent rain of twilight moon, effulgent sky.
2 February 2023

“Quite mundane and linear”: A reader reacts to our ChatGPT story

The gravity of writing has always come from the writer. A piece of literature cannot be judged without the whys and hows, and these questions are impossible to answer without sentience.
30 January 2023

One Hundred Years of ‘Siddhartha’: One man’s journey to enlightenment

"Perhaps you cannot find what you are seeking, because you seek too much."
29 January 2023

Family of feelings: Iffat Nawaz's 'Shurjo's Clan'

Part memoir, part magical realism, this is a story about identity and the idea of home.
26 January 2023

15 to get Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroskar

Fifteen authors and writers were named today as the winners of the Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroskar-2022..They are Farook Mahmud and Tarik Sujat (poetry), Tapash Majumder and Parvez Hossain (novel), Masud Uzzaman (essay/research), Alam Khorshed (translation), Milon Kanti Dey and Farid Ahmed
25 January 2023

Livraria Lello: the bookstore that inspired Flourish and Blotts

Visiting the Livaria Lello transports any Harry Potter fan to Flourish and Blotts.
19 January 2023

‘Khandito Nazrul’: Why he is and should be relevant

The difficulty of translation is one of the reasons why Nazrul is not discussed as extensively as Tagore in the west.
13 January 2023

Favourite season

Showers and storms give way To a surge of sunlight A fragrance of hope floats in On morning breeze
6 January 2023

Gemcon Sahitya Puroshkar recognises Poet Kamal Chowdhury, 2 others

Three writers have been conferred Gemcon Sahitya Puroshkar-2023.
5 January 2023

On curating Slam Poetry Nights for Dhaka Lit Fest tomorrow

The most moving part about these poetry sessions is the conversations.
4 January 2023

SHOUTxDS Books presents ‘Slam Poetry Nights’ — Episode 4

Returning for its 4th instalment, December's Slam Poetry Nights was different in several ways.
22 December 2022

How the fantasy behind “men written by women” falls short of expectations

Fictional men written by women are undoubtedly some of the most detailed and genuine characters to exist in literature.
22 December 2022

AI-generated book receives criticism on the internet

Tthe story of a little girl named Alice and a robot named Sparkle who explore the frontiers of science and technology together.
19 December 2022

The poetry of football commentary

Commentary transcends into a place where it sprinkles the power of words over the raw emotional journey of live sports.
18 December 2022

Behind the scenes of the Dhaka Literary Festival 2023

Literature is our main area of interest.But we also want to highlight areas of intersection between literature and science, politics, pop culture, human rights, and new media.
15 December 2022

Un-Red

She reminds me of Desdemona,/ A character, a wife, a tramp, but never human! So maybe she was a witch, / Maybe sirens were witches too,
9 December 2022

from it, poetry arrives

bits and pieces of her day/ get stuck in her hair/ she carries grief quietly
9 December 2022

Emily Dickinson: A prodigy prosodist of Modern literature

Dickinson shows that mellifluousness of language is what gives a heightened attribute to the essence of a poesy.
9 December 2022

On free speech and Milton’s 'Areopagitica'

Milton shows how the erroneous use of censorship laws have hindered progress even in the quest for scientific truth.
9 December 2022

The Bhawal story through women’s voices in Aruna Chakravarti’s ‘The Mendicant Prince’

The story of the ailing Bhawal prince, Ramendranarayan Roy, the Mejo Kumar, who while taken to Darjeeling to recuperate, died and was cremated there, under mysterious circumstances, and who then returned years later as a wandering ascetic with partial amnesia!
8 December 2022