Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
1 May 2026
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Non-fiction review
Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
10 April 2026
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Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Sports journalism and Bangladesh
9 August 2023
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Books & Literature
'Independence': A painfully poignant Partition story
22 June 2023
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Books & Literature
Professing criticism: On Naeem Mohaiemen's new book of essays
8 June 2023
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Books & Literature
Flesh in ruins
18 May 2023
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Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Family of feelings: Iffat Nawaz's 'Shurjo's Clan'
26 January 2023
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The Bhawal story through women’s voices in Aruna Chakravarti’s ‘The Mendicant Prince’
8 December 2022
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Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Andy Warhol & Truman Capote talk out their anxieties
1 December 2022
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Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: A relative’s perspective on an enigmatic hero
17 November 2022
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Books & Literature
Story of Quarter Century of Development
When Azizur Rahman Khan writes something on the economy of Bangladesh, one needs to take note.
17 April 2016
Still struggling after 1971…..
MR Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist.
10 April 2016
A Fugitive's Pendulous Mind
This monumental novel speaks of the phenomena that can persuade people to commit crimes, the inner torment that forces people to burn with a feeling of guilt and the ultimate expiation offenders go through while playing cat and mouse with their conscience.
10 April 2016
The Lighter Side of History
I am not sure if I can call it the lighter side of history, or, more appropriately, history off the beaten track...
10 April 2016
Flash Point
An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them.
3 April 2016
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria at a time when the country was on a verge of a military takeover. Just before this takeover..
3 April 2016
My Days in National Book Centre
Fazle Rabbi had a long professional career; almost twenty years in Bangla Academy which is considered a great centre for Bangla culture and literature.
3 April 2016
From Subjective Impulses to Universal Echoes
This is how I sent a message through a social network to poet Nahid Kaiser expressing my eagerness to read her latest book...
3 April 2016
On the eve of India partition…
To me, Aynakhal Tea Estate is a metaphor for a world unknown to all but only those who work there: the British Mangers and Assistant Managers, the Bengali Clerks known as Babus, and the workers called Coolies. This world is a lot different from the one we live in; for it has its own rules, its own code of conduct, and challenges and dangers ...
3 April 2016
Struggling since 1971..
Mr Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist. Despite being a graduate of Accounting he has written on a wide array of social & political causes/issues. The author has published 40 different books so far as a social novel, research papers, stories and so on.
28 March 2016
Good Start to a Series
Only Time Will Tell is the first of seven novels of the Clifton Chronicles series written by Jeffrey Archer.
23 March 2016
Tale of poverty and poetry
DR. Mohit Kamal, a renowned psychiatrist, mostly known for his psychological novels, is a patron of literature. He has authored a novel titled Dukhu out of his great admiration of the personal and literary life of our national poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam.
20 March 2016
Aesthetics in Poetic Pandemonium
Depoeticized Rhapsody is, oxymoronically speaking, a poetic endeavor that aims at delineating the constantly changing modern lifestyle. Justifiably enough,
20 March 2016
Continual Quest for Knowing and Understanding Bangladesh
Reviewing a book that traces the history of Bangladesh from ancient times in just over 400 pages has been, for me, a formidable experience, especially since a great deal of material has been covered within those pages. Almost as a fiendish twist, for a fairly lengthy portion, the book is as much a Reader's Digest version of Indian history as it is of Bangladesh. However, when one considers the subtitle of the book, A Subcontinental Civilisation, one can acknowledge
20 March 2016
Private Life of the Mughals of India (1526-1803 A.D.)
Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched: their food, drink, clothes
20 March 2016
The travails of travels
PERHAPS the ghorkuno Bengalis were introduced to real life travelstories first by Rabindranath Tagore and next by Syed Mujtaba Ali (Deshe Bideshe).
13 March 2016
A Navigator's Voyage to Enlightenment
Robinson Crusoe is one of the earliest works of fiction in English literature. In this book Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) illustrated...
13 March 2016
My Struggle: Book Two
It offers details of his relationship with his wife and two daughters, and an analysis of people in different social settings --for example at birthday parties where he hangs out and at his children's daycare center's meetings.
13 March 2016
Finding home halfway across the world
The present book is not only a fascinating read, but also a collection of testimonies that fills in a gap in the historical narrative of the War of Liberation of Bangladesh.
6 March 2016
Story of University of Dhaka
I would like to begin by congratulating the editors Imtiaz Ahmed and Iftekhar Iqbal for bringing out this timely volume of essays University of Dhaka: Making Unamaking Remaking.
6 March 2016