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
In remembrance of Jibanananda Das
Today is the 118th birth anniversary of poet Jibanananda Das, a legend in Bengali literature. We remember him in this day with the greatest reverence.
17 February 2016, 12:27 PM
Love, rage, silence: Secret lives of Afghan female poets
With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.
17 February 2016, 05:10 AM
Encyclopaedia at book fair choice of quite a few
Among the planets orbiting around the sun, earth stands third from the sun and it has four layers -- crust, mantle,
16 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Book fair stall shut down for carrying questionable item
The authorities of Amar Ekushey Granthamela shut down a book stall on charge of selling a book that reportedly hurt religious
15 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Stall closed at Ekushey book fair for ‘hurting religious sentiments’
Authorities of Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka close down a book stall on charge of displaying a book that reportedly hurts religious sentiments.
15 February 2016, 14:04 PM
Try It! Superfoods Super Fast
Which fruit can build your resistance to disease? Which vegetable is good for your liver? Eat your way to super health with Try It Superfoods, Super Fast.
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM
The Good Liar
Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to pull off the final coup of his career.
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Tales of dreams, struggles and triumphs
One of the finest reviews of the book is Purnendu Patri, a dedicated soul of entire Bengal. Many of us know that Patri equally contributed to different genres of art and literature. He had a special fascination for cinema and art. Rahman thinks that Patri was deeply influenced by the philosophical thoughts of Manik Bandyopadhyay.
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Of human nature and a dose of the supernatural
"... readers will find that my flair as a storyteller and strength as a writer reside primarily in the imaginative recreation of the borderland between the margins of the known and the preternatural world."
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Good thrillers never get old
A person stuck in a situation he or she can not escape, or pitted against a ruthless maniac determined to destroy the
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Book fair wears colours of spring
The book fair took up a festive look yesterday with people especially the youths clad in colourful clothes streaming onto the premises on the occasion of Pahela Falgun and Saraswati Puja. While children and women mostly wore yellow saris and flower crowns, men were seen in panjabis.
13 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Three Poems
Morning comes upon us, a yawn...
12 February 2016, 18:00 PM
ROSIE
Oh Rosie, Rosie my girl
12 February 2016, 18:00 PM
OUT OF THE SHADOWS: LITERARY LIFE IN MYANMAR
Though Wiles is absent from these narratives, their seamless clarity is evidence of her skill as an interviewer and editor. Her introductions are
invaluable in setting these writers in the context of their physical and cultural environment.
12 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Dictionaries abound at book fair
History serves as a lighthouse to the new generation to find out the right path in the world of knowledge; that's why, people's quest to learn history is everlasting.
12 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu's graphic biography's 2nd edition to be published tomorrow
The second part of the autobiography based graphic novel on the childhood events of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be unveiled tomorrow at 11:00am at the book fair.
11 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Music no less a subject at book fair
Music lovers and enthusiasts can find suitable titles to explore the area of their interest, as the Amar Ekushey Granthamela offers over 100 of books on various aspects of music this year.
11 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Biographies one of book fair favourites
People love to be inspired, one of the greatest sources of which are biographies and autobiographies of famous
10 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Neaz Rahman's book on urban planning at Ekushey Book Fair
“Behular Poth Dhore Ek Nishad Putrer Golpo” authored by urban planner Khondker Neaz Rahman is available at Ekushey
10 February 2016, 18:00 PM
SADDEST BOOK EVER?
“All the Bright Places” is Jennifer Niven's first YA novel that came out in January 2015 and is set to be adapted into a movie.
10 February 2016, 18:00 PM