The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
The Shelf
What to read / What we’re reading this week
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
What to read
Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
Literature
Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Features
Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory
13 April 2026, 20:12 PM
Culture
Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
An Ekushey Book Fair breaking with tradition
21 September 2025, 13:05 PM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / An outlandish jumble of cults, cannibalism, and colonial violence
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books
Mother
None can fathom
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Going to Hatiya Island
At first sight of our island, I confess
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Social “Cannibalism” and the Edible Women
The Edible Woman (1969) is the Canadian author Margaret Atwood's debut novel. It follows the story of Marian MacAlpin, a young
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
ECLECTIC ESSAYS
Muhammad Zamir is a prolific writer, notably for the national newspapers of Bangladesh, and writes proficiently in both Bengali and
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Dressed Like a Daydream
The pool was midnight blue, adorned by the reflection of thousands of stars. It blended perfectly well with my deepest, nearly-pitch-
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Ghalib Ki Dilli (Part II)
Some years back, I had read of the restoration of the Ghalib haveli. The premises in 1995 had served as a heater workshop. It opened
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
You, who are
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
The Endless I
Within the givens of life
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
OF WEDDING GIFTS
After a month's respite, with the inauspicious Pous being over, the Bengali wedding season has come back with a big vengeance, so to
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Crescent: A Review
Diana Abu-Jaber, a Jordanian-American writer based in U.S., attracted an international readership when her debut novel Arabian Jazz
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
My Life with Shakespeare
When you are asked to write a memoir or something about Shakespeare, you should know that you have reached your expiration date.
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Ghalib ki Dilli (Part I)
I should have been listening to one of the scores of imaginative events on the poetry, life and times of the pre-eminent poet of the
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
BIDDING ADIEU TO RADA
The terrible realization was setting in almost all, if not all of us. The dream days of fun and work in equal measure at RADA were
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Jibanananda Das: Baitarani
I'm not sure when I rose from the grave of death—
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Anne -The Hopeless Dreamer
If you are a fan of Little Women or What Katy Did series, Anne of Green Gables and its sequels are just the thing you have been looking
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Where Reality Meets Fiction
“All our lives, we are never in a single moment at any time”- said Arundhati Roy in her interview with Patrick Carey for Books and Arts.
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Fundamentalism in Bangladesh: A Review
Prof. Abul Barkat, who is known as “people's economist,” has published a book on fundamentalism in Bangladesh from Muktobuddhi
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Tagore Songs
With him, “no” will never do.
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Prodigy
The smell of spicy food was making Sam hungry. After a long wait at the restaurant, the waiter came with the food. He had a mask
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
A Different Kind of Cookbook
Occasionally, a cookbook comes along that lures you into hours of reading. The recently published Recipes from Bangladesh by Fawzia Mowla (fondly known as “Lisa”) is one such book.
16 April 2018, 18:00 PM